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Edgar Allan Poe Accomplishments

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Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston Massachusetts. Poe's father left the household early on, and his mother died when he was three. Poe moved to Richmond, Virginia to live with John and Frances Allan. Poe was faced with some financial problems, and when he went to attend the University of Virginia he was not able to receive a sufficient amount of funds in order to pay tuition. This lead Poe to turn to gambling to pay the rest of the costs, but this only landed him in debt. Poe published his first book in 1827 and it was named "Tamerlane and Other Poems." Also around this time period Poe decided to join the military, Poe always had the aspirations of joining West Point which is a military school. He finally followed those
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