Edgar Allen Poe

EDGAR ALLEN POE BIOGRAPHY

Edgar Allen Poe was born in 1809 in Boston. His stories were about love and sadness. He died when he was 40 years old in 1849. People said that they found him unconscious and believed him drunk. He was an excellent writer that kept people fascinated with stories. He died as he lived all his life was miserable and with out hope. It believed that he uses a drug named opium that helped him use his imagination and he uses alcohol. Those were his inspirations and his story\'s that were so fabulous come from there. These things were making him crazy and took him out of control. A thing that made him even more crazy is that everyone he had ever met or loved always semmed to have died from a disease called tuberculosis. This made him very depressive also.

He was born to very poor family. His father was an actor that barley buy meat to eat. He was a little boy when his father abandoned him and their brothers. After that his mother got sick and few months later she died. He went to live with wealthy rich people but his father didn\'t want to adopt him. His father was a businessman and decided to move to England there he went to school to Manner House School. In 1820 he returned to Virginia but he couldn\'t afford it and decide left school. He fall in love with a neighbor her name was Elmira, but her father didn\'t want to accept their relationship. His stepfather criticized him about his story saying that they were workless and he decided to leave his house. He went to a military service but he realized that he like more poems than to be in the military service. He often wrote letters to Elmira unknowing that her father received the letters. She married a rich man and become a rich woman.

He became heart broken and he began to write love poems. He was living with his real father, sister, muddy and her daughter. After that he married muddy\'s daughter at the age of 27 she was 13 years old. She became sick of tuberculosis and died at the age of 24. He didn\'t know how to support the family because the poems didn\'t give him enough money. He uses to lose job after job because of his attitude saying that the work of other writers was workless. He became the first writer that wrote detective story\'s and in 1845 he wrote the poem \"The Raven\" he was know as the Raven after that he knew he couldn\'t afford life and