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Facts about Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe is thought to be the first well-known American writer to try living on his craft alone.
1) Born Jan. 19, 1809, as Edgar Poe in Boston. His father abandoned the family the next year and his mother died a year later. The parents were both actors.
2) Lived in England and Scotland for a short time with his foster family, the Allans.
3) His first work published was a collection of poems in 1827 credited only to “a Bostonian.”
4) In his mid-20s, he married his 13-year-old first cousin, Virginia Clemm, in Baltimore in 1835.
5) He died in 1849, four days after being found delirious on the Baltimore streets wearing clothes that were not his. Hospitalized, he was never coherent enough to explain his situation.
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