Edgar Allan Poe: Life and Works

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts and died October 7, 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. His mom was Eliza (Elizabeth) Poe and his dad was David Poe, both were involved with the Federal street theater. David Poe had a reputation for drinking. Elizabeth Poe was an orphan, her first husband, an actor had died, then she married David, and was dying all when she was only twenty-four years old. The three kids William Henry Leonard, the oldest, Edgar, and Rosalie, the youngest, all stayed by there mothers deathbed, they watched her die, as she coughed up blood due to tuberculosis. Edgar was not quite three when his mom died. There is confusion as to what happened to his dad, some say he left the family before Elizabeth died, and some say he left after she died, never to be heard from again and others say that he died shortly after she died.…