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Edgar Allan Poe was born on the 19th of January 1809 in Boston
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When he was 2 years old his father abandoned his family.
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he started writing poems at the age of 14 years old.
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he left without money and without work decided to join the American army in 1827. He was 18 years old.
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three years later Stepfather John Allen at this point decided to reconcile with his son and took him to a place to continue his studies at the West Point Military Academy in 1830.
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In 1834 his father died without including him in his will.
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in 1835 (he was 26 years old) he got a job as an editor for the art and literature magazine SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER in Richmond.
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When he was 27 the poet married his cousin Virginia and he was only 13 years old.
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In 1840 Edgar joined George R. Graham at the Graham’s magazine.
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During that year Poe worked on his first detective novel “THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE”
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In 1845 he published his first great horror story “THE RAVEN”
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In 1847 when he was only 24 the same age of her biological mother and older brother when they died, his wife died of tuberculosis.
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He spent his last days in Baltimore, he was found in the streets and was taken to a hospital and in those days he was never clear headed enough to explain what had happened to him.
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In the end he died on October 7th 1849 maybe because of brain congestion or his alcoholism
