When I was younger, my family and I stopped to see Edgar Allan Graves a couple days after his birthday. When we got there, there was a bottle and roses. I thought that that was pretty cool that after 60 some years people are still remembering him and his amazing work.
1. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachussetts on January 19th, 1809. Poe died in Baltimore in 1849.
2. Poe was left as a orphan at the age of 3. I think that that definately infulenced his writing because he was left at such a young age.
3. Poe's death is unknown but some people think that he died from delirium tremens, heart disease, syphilis, meningeal inflammation, cholera, even rabies.
4. Edgar Allan Poe calls Virginia home.
5. The poe society doesnt like the claim that Virginia was his homeland because he lived in Baltimore for most of his life.
6. The US Military Acadamey of West Point expelled Poe.
7. Poe married Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe who was 13 at the time of the marriage.
8. I think that for him to be marrying a girl that young is outrageous. Now a days thats illegal!
9. Murders in the Rue Morgue is the first detective story.
10. The 'Tell Tale-Tale Heart' and 'The Black Cat' were written in 1843.
11. 'The Raven' was written in 1845.
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