EDGAR ALLAN POE´S BIOGRAPHY

EDGAR ALLAN POE WAS BORN ...........

• IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ON 19 JANUARY 1809.

• IN ENGLAND ON 19 JANUARY 1809.

• IN NEW YORK, ON 19 JANUARY 1809.

HE HARDLY KNEW HIS PARENTS, DAVID AND ELIZABETH POE, WE WERE BOTH.....

• ACTORS

• WRITERS

• SINGERS

• DOCTORS

HIS PARENTS DIED WHEN EDGAR WAS A LITTLE CHILD. A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN, AND HIS WIFE FRANCES TOOK HIM INTO THEIR HOME. HIS ADOPTIVE FATHER WAS....

• JOHN ALLAN

• MARK ALLAN

• WILLIAM ALLAN

BETWEEN 1815 AND 1820 POE LIVED IN ......, WHERE HE DID WELL IN HIS STUDIES IN LATIN, FRENCH, MATHS AND HISTORY.

• ENGLAND

• MEXICO

• NEW YORK

• RICHMOND

UNFORTUNATELY, HE DID NOT GET ON WELL WITH HIS ADOPTIVE FATHER. HE DID NOT SEND HIM ENOUGH MONEY TO LIVE ON. SO , HE DECIDED TO LEAVE HOME AND WENT TO ..........WHERE HE JOINED THE ARMY IN 1827.

• BOSTON

• RICHMOND

• NEW YORK

JOHN ALLAN DIED IN 1834, LEAVING NOTHING TO THE PERSON HE HAD TREATED AS A SON. FORCED TO MAKE HIS OWN WAY IN LIFE, IN 1835, POE MANAGED TO GET A JOB AS .......

• WRITER

• EDITOR

• DOCTOR

• JOURNALIST

IN 1836 HE MARRIED .......

• HIS SISTER VIRGINIA, WHO WAS THEN ONLY 13 YEARS OLD.

• HIS COUSIN VIRGINIA, WHO WAS THEN ONLY 13 YEARS OLD.

• HIS NIECE VIRGINIA, WHO WAS THEN ONLY 13 YEARS OLD.

POE WAS ASKED TO LEAVE HIS JOB, THE MAGAZINE, IN 1837 BECAUSE....

• HE BECAME ILL AND HE COULD NOT CONTINUE.

• HIS WRITING WAS SLIGHTLY PRAISED.

• HE BEGAN TO DRINK HEAVILY, AND PROBLEMS WITH ALCOHOL STAYED WITH HIM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

IN 1844 HE MOVED BACK TO NEW YORK, THEN TO PHILADELPHIA , AND WORKED ON ....................... AND OTHER MAGAZINES. IN THOSE CITIES HE WROTE AND SOLD SOME OF HIS BEST KNOWN STORIES.

• BUENOS AIRES HERALD MAGAZINE

• THE CANTERVILLE GHOST MAGAZINE

• THE NEW YORK MIRROR

SOME OF HIS BEST KNOWN STORIES ARE....

• THE GREEN CAT - THE TELL TALE HEART - THE BLACK DEATH- THE FOUND LETTER - THE BARREL OF WATER

• THE RED DEATH- THE STOLEN LETTER - THE BARREL OF AMONTILLADO - THE CANTERVILLE GHOST - ALICE´S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

• THE BLACK CAT - THE TELL TALE HEART - THE RED DEATH- THE STOLEN LETTER - THE BARREL OF AMONTILLADO