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Poe's Life

No American writer cuts quite so sorry a figure as Edgar Allan Poe, famous for macabre stories like “The Pit and the Pendulum” and the often-quoted poem “The Raven.” He was born in Boston on January 19, 1809, his father an alcoholic actor, David Poe, his mother an actress, Eliza, who died insane and poor after David Poe deserted the family when Edgar was seven, after which the young boy was adopted by a family friend, John Allan, who took him to live in England.

Poe returned to the United States as a young adult and earned honors in classical and modern languages at the University of Virginia. He also earned the wrath of creditors from whom he had borrowed to finance a social life of heavy drinking and gambling. To escape them, Poe joined the Army under the name of Edgar Perry in May 1827, as an enlisted man. Assigned to the quartermaster’s commissariat, he kept records and correspondence for his officers. A model soldier, in only nineteen months he attained the highest......


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