EDGAR ALLAN POE: LIFE AND WORKS This is about the life and the works of the poet edgar allan poe, i basically describe his life and how it effected what and how he wrote.

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 coug…