About the author
The American poet, fiction writer and critic, Edgar Allan
Poe (1809–49), was responsible for some of the most
unforgettable stories of terror ever written. They were the
products of the mind of an unstable man, who lived a
short and unhappy life.
Poe was born in January 1809 in Boston, USA. His life
began tragically, as both of his parents had died by the
time he was two. He went to live with a family, the Allans,
who became his foster parents. He went to good schools
and university, but had to leave university early because he
fell out with his foster father, who never really understood
him. Poe was deeply upset; his relationship with his foster
father worsened, and Poe left home forever.
Poe showed early literary promise, finding a publisher for
his first collection of poetry, Tamerlane and Other Poems,
before he was twenty years old. After a spell in the army he
started on a career in journalism and began writing short
stories. He married when he was twenty-six. Despite being
a good, hard-working editor and also producing articles
and short stories all the time, Poe never had much money,
and much of what he did have was spent on alcohol.
When Poe’s wife died young in 1847, any stability in his
life disappeared and he himself was dead two years later,
found unconscious in the street after a session of heavy drinking.
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