Edgar Allan Poe Essay Edgar Allan Poe; a mysterious man, to say the least, but what made him that way? Was it just the way he was born, or something more? Edgar Allan Poe, a man of many stories, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 9, 1809. He was born into a very poor family, but things would soon change, as “his mother would be taken by a fire when he was only two years old” (www.poestories.com). This would lead him to live without a mother forever, greatly impacting him in a way that would greatly impact his writing. Later, as a scholar, Poe moved on to go to the Military Academy of West Point, where he was expelled in 1831.Poe then went to Virginia State College, eventually being forced to leave because he began drinking and