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Edgar Allan Poe
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Despite difficult times in American publishing, Poe was the first well-known author to try to live by writing alone.
In 1835, Poe, at the age of 26, married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm.
In 1827, Poe enlisted in the United States Army using the false name "Edgar A. Perry". He claimed to be 22 years old even though he was just 18.
While Poe became a world-known writer after his death; during his lifetime he was mostly recognized as a literary critic.
Apart from literature, one of Poe´s favorite hobbies was space and cosmology.
After his father left the family and his mother died a year later in 1811, young Poe was taken into the home of John Allan, a Scottish merchant in Richmond, Virginia. The foster family gave him the name "Edgar Allan Poe", but they never formally adopted him.
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“The Raven“, which later became Poe´s most famous poem and one of the most popular poems in the world,
In 2009, one of the 12 survived copies of Poe's first book “Tamerlane and Other Poems“ was sold at Christie's for $662,500, a record price paid for a work of American literature.
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Poe was a keen cat lover. Supposedly, he often wrote with his cat on his shoulder
In 1827, Poe enlisted in the United States Army using the false name "Edgar A. Perry". He claimed to be 22 years old even though he was just 18.
The famous creepy portrait depicting Poe as a baggy-eyed weirdo was far from what he really looked like.
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Between 1837 and 1844, Poe lived in several houses in Philadelphia, one of which is still preserved as a National Historic Site, accessible to the public.
Poe is believed to have never signed anything "Edgar Allan Poe." Since the name “Allan“ came from the foster father
He might have been named Edgar after a character in William Shakespeare's “King Lear“, a play that his parents were performing in 1809.
Although Poe was best known for his horror stories, he also wrote satires, humor tales, and hoaxes.
Poe´s death remains as mysterious as the author himself. On October 3, 1849
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