EDGAR ALLAN POE

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HIS MOTHERS NAME WAS ELIZEBETH HOPKINS

EDGARS MOTHER DIED WHEN HE WAS 2 YEARS OLD

EDGARS FOSTER PARENTS WERE JOHN AND FRANCES ALLAN

THEY LIVED IN RICHMOND, VIRIGINA

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• Edgar attended the University of Virigina
• He dropped out after 1 semester due to money

His first published work was tomerlane and other poems in 1827

Edgar married Virginia in1835

There marriage was unusual because he married his cousin

EDGAR PUBLISHED THE RAVEN IN 1945

Poe published The Murder in the Rune Morgue in 1841

IN 1847 EDGAR'S WIFE VIRGINIA DIED

After his wife death, Edgar engaged Sarah Helen Whitmzn. There engagement failed

Edgar Allen Poe died in 1849