Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts. Poe was a critic, editor, and a writer. He also wrote short stories and poems, his style was mysteries and horror. Edgar Allan Poe’s background, personal life, and career influenced his writing style.
The first thing that influenced Poe’s writing style was his background. Edgar’s father was David Poe and his mother was Elizabeth Arnold (PoeStories.com 2). In 1795, Elizabeth came to America and soon after arriving she married David, the two parents had three kids, Henry, Edgar, and Rosalie (PoeStories.com 2). Poe’s family was torn apart early on, his father left when he was young and his mother died in 1811 because of tuberculosis (PoeStories.com 3). Henry went to live with his grandparents while Rosalie was taken in by another family (PoeStories.com 3). John was a tobacco merchant in Richmond, Virginia, John and his wife Frances Allen welcomed Poe with open arms yet never adopted him (Poets.org 4).
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Poe use to write love poems to the girls in his classes at school (Banks 6). The family business is the dreams that John had for Poe, yet Poe had other things in mind (Banks 7). In 1826, Edgar Allen Poe decided to go off to the University of Virginia (PoeStories.com 8). Even with John’s money, John only gave Edgar about one third of the money he needed (PoeStories.com 8). This caused Poe to turn to drinking and gambling to cover his classes, these actions put Edgar in debt (Poets.org 10). Poe stayed at college for about one year before he was kicked out of the University (Poet.org 9). When Poe was forced to return home things kept deteriorating. His fiancée became engaged to another man while he was gone and his relationship with his father also worsened (Grimm