Biography of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, on 19 January 1809. He was a writer, romantic poet and journalist. Universally known as one of the most important masters of the short story and his tales of mistery, he was also considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre . He was named Edgar Poe, but when he was a child, his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. He was unofficially adopted by Mr and Mrs Allans. He studied at the University of Virginia and he had to leave because of lack of money. He enlisted in the army and at this time his relationship with his adoptive parents broke up. His literary career began in 1827 with a book of poems (Tamerlane and Other Poems). For economic reasons, he worked on prose and he became known for his style of literary criticism. Because of his work he lived in several cities: Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. In 1835 he married his cousin Virginia Clemm, who was only 13. In 1845 he published a poem that would make him famous "The Raven" His wife died two years later. He started to plan the production of his own journal, but The writer's dream was never fulfilled, he died before he could do it. He died on 7 October 1849, in Baltimore, when he was 40 years. The cause of death is unknown. Edgar Allan and his works have influenced literature in the United States and around the world and has always been admired by popular culture.
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