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A Short Biography of Edgar Allan Poe

Author Name:

Edgar Allan Poe

Born As:

Edgar Allan Poe

Other Names:

Edgar Allan Poe

Born:

19 Jan 1809

Died:

7 Oct 1849




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Poet and writer                          
Selected Works:

Tales:

Berenice
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Gold-Bug
Hop-Frog
Ligeia
The Man of the Crowd
The Masque of the Red Death
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Purloined Letter
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Oblong Box
The Premature Burial
The Oval Portrait

Poetry:

A Dream Within A Dream
Annabel Lee
The Bells
The City in the Sea
The Conqueror Worm
Eldorado
The Haunted Palace
Lenore
The Raven
Ulalume

Other works:

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - 1838 - Poe's only complete novel
The Balloon-Hoax - 1844 - A journalistic hoax printed as a true story
The Philosophy of Composition - 1846 - Essay
Eureka: A Prose Poem - 1848 - Essay.                                              
Mother Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins
Father  David Poe, Jr. elder brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, younger sister, Rosalie Poe.
Wife Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe                                              
                                              
Poe married his 13-year old cousin, Virginia Clemm. Her early death may have inspired some of his writing.