Some Insight on Edgar Allan Poe...

#1. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He perished on October 7, 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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#2. A terrible childhood event that affected his writing greatly was his mother's death of tuberculosis when he was only two years old.
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#3. Five things that may have caused Poe's death might have been beating, toxic disorder, epilepsy, rabies, or heart problems.
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#6. The U.S. Military Acadamy at West Point expelled Poe in 1831.
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#7. Poe married Virginia Clemm (his cousin) when she was only 13 years old.
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#9. "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first of Poe's detective story.
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#10. "The Tell Tale Heart" was written in 1843, alongside "The Black Cat".
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#11. "The Raven" was published in the year 1845, January 29th.
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#12. The picture of Poe that seems closest to the image that pops in my head while I'm reading his stories was the "Ultima Thule" daguerreotype made in 1848 by William S. Hartshorn. It seems to best show his raggedness and depressed writing manner.
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#14. I signed the guestbook at Poestories.com and wrote a comment.
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