Edgar Allen Poe is a name that comes to mind when talking about horror stories and poems. He was one of the most influential American writers in the 19th century. Some of his most famous stories and poems include The Raven, Tell-tale Heart, The Fallen House of Usher, Annabel Lee and many more. Some of his non-fiction works include book reviews, essays, scientific theories and a textbook, while other example of his fiction works includes novels. On January 9, 1809, Edgar Allen Poe was born to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe Jr., they were traveling actor that was part of a repertory company in Boston. However, both of Poe’s parents died before he was 3, so he was split up from his siblings and raised by John and Frances Allan. As a wealthy …show more content…
Poe was a bright young man and excelled all of his classes, but gained a large sum of debt, because the Allan’s sent him to college with not enough money. So to pay his debt he start to gamble, but this proves not to be enough because by the end of the first term he had to burn his furniture to keep warm. Poe then dropped out of school and returned home to Richmond. When Poe returned home and learned that his fiancée Sarah Elmira Royster was engaged to someone else. Edgar Allen Poe published his first book Tamerlane when he was eighteen, he then listed in the United States Army. Then when he was 20 years old he was accepted in the United States Military Academy at West Point. During this time Poe and John Allan grow hostile towards each other and eventually cut ties with each other. With Poe is being poor and lonely he returned to his late father’s in Baltimore. Upon his arrival in the city his cousins robbed him, but he then met what would become his new family. His aunt Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia, invited Poe into their home and Maria Clemm then became a mother to Poe. Eventually Poe and Virginia got married when she was 13 and he was 27 in Richmond. This couple was very happy together but there was a constant financial struggle. Then a year later he moved to New York to work as a magazine writer, to make barely enough money to support his