Bio
Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19th, 1809, in Boston. After both of his parents died when he was three, a tobacco merchant, John Allan, took Poe in and moved to Richmond, Virginia. Later on in 1826, he left Richmond and attended the University of Virginia. After racking up debt, he had to move back home, where he found his fiancé engaged to another man. Poe's career in writing started around the death John Allan, which pushed him to publish his stories in contests, which then led him to a position at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. It wasn't until 1945, where his poem "The Raven" was published where his name became truly known. Poe also had a small career in the military. He was enlisted under the same Edgar A. Perry for four years. Poe started in Boston at Fort Independence, then later relocated to Fort Moultrie in South Carolina. He attained the rank of Sergeant Major for Artillery, and was court-martialed and formally dismissed in march of
