Born January 19 th Son of David and Elizabeth Arnold Poe. Father died in Mother died December of Foster son of John Allen.

In 1820 he attended the University of Virginia for only one year. studied Latin and poetry. Hobbies included Swimming and acting.

Enlisted into the army as Edgar A. Perry. At the age of eighteen, stating on the application that he was twenty-two. Applied to West Point military academy He soon fell into debt again at West Point. Neglected the Military duties. Was discharged from the academy.

In 1835 he returned to Richmond to work as an editor on the Southern Literary Messenger. he married his thirteen-year old cousin Virginia Started his own magazine: The Penn Magazine, later renamed The Stylus.

In 1843 he was invited to give a lecture in Washington D. C. to promote his magazine. Edgar appeared at the White House, drunk and ruined the greatest opportunity to support his magazine.

His wife Virginia died in January 1847, age 25. Departed for a business trip in New York City, 1849 to benefit his Magazine. Found drunk and confused on his way their and was taken to the hospital. Poe died while in the hospital on October 7 th 1849 with his last words, “Lord help my poor soul”

Edgars works A Descent Into the Maelstrum A Predicament A Tale Of Jerusalem A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains Berenice Bon-Bon Diddling Considered As One Of The Exact Sciences. Doubtful Poems Eleonora Four Beasts In One: The Homo-Cameleopard Hop-Frog How To Write A Blackwood Article King Pest A Tale Containing an Allegory. Landor`s Cottage A Pendant to Ligeia Lionizing Loss of Breath Maelzel`s Chess-Player Mesmeric Revelation Metzengerstein Morella Ms. Found in a Bottle Mystification Narrative of A. Gordon Pym A Descent Into the Maelstrum A Predicament A Tale Of Jerusalem A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains Berenice Bon-Bon Diddling Considered As One Of The Exact Sciences. Doubtful Poems Eleonora Four Beasts In One: The Homo-Cameleopard Hop-Frog How To Write A Blackwood Article King Pest A Tale Containing an Allegory. Landor`s Cottage A Pendant to Ligeia Lionizing Loss of Breath Maelzel`s Chess-Player Mesmeric Revelation Metzengerstein Morella Ms. Found in a Bottle Mystification Narrative of A. Gordon Pym

Edgars works Never Bet the Devil Your Head A Tale With a Moral. Old English Poetry On Board Balloon "Skylark" Philosophy of Furniture Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe Poems Of Later Life Poems of Manhood Poems of Youth Poetic Principle, The Scenes from "Politan" AN UNPUBLISHED DRAMA. Shadow -A Parable Silence -A Fable Some Words With A Mummy. The Angel Of The Odd An Extravaganza. The Assignation The Balloon- Hoax The Bells The Black Cat The Business Man Never Bet the Devil Your Head A Tale With a Moral. Old English Poetry On Board Balloon "Skylark" Philosophy of Furniture Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe Poems Of Later Life Poems of Manhood Poems of Youth Poetic Principle, The Scenes from "Politan" AN UNPUBLISHED DRAMA. Shadow -A Parable Silence -A Fable Some Words With A Mummy. The Angel Of The Odd An Extravaganza. The Assignation The Balloon- Hoax The Bells The Black Cat The Business Man

Edgars works The Cask of Amontillado The Colloquy of Monos and Una The Conversation or Eiros and Charmion The Devil in the Belfry The Domain of Arnheim The Duc De L`Omelette The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar The Fall of the House of Usher The Gold-Bug The Imp of the Perverse The Island of the Fay The Landscape Garden The Man of the Crowd The Masque of the Red Death The Murders In The Rue Morgue The Mystery of Maria Roget A Sequel to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” The Oblong Box The Oval Portrait The Pit and the Pendulum The Poetic Principle The Cask of Amontillado The Colloquy of Monos and Una The Conversation or Eiros and Charmion The Devil in the Belfry The Domain of Arnheim The Duc De L`Omelette The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar The Fall of the House of Usher The Gold-Bug The Imp of the Perverse The Island of the Fay The Landscape Garden The Man of the Crowd The Masque of the Red Death The Murders In The Rue Morgue The Mystery of Maria Roget A Sequel to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” The Oblong Box The Oval Portrait The Pit and the Pendulum The Poetic Principle

Edgars works The Premature Burial The Purloined Letter The Raven The Spectacles The Sphinx The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether The Tell-Tale Heart The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal Thou Art the Man Three Sundays in a Week To Helen Ulalume Von Kempelen and His Discovery Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling William Wilson X-Ing a Paragrab The Premature Burial The Purloined Letter The Raven The Spectacles The Sphinx The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether The Tell-Tale Heart The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal Thou Art the Man Three Sundays in a Week To Helen Ulalume Von Kempelen and His Discovery Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling William Wilson X-Ing a Paragrab