Edgar Allan Poe Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Wife, Affairs, Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Edgar Allan Poe
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Thursday
BIRTHPLACE
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
DIED AT AGE
40 Years 8 Months 19 Days
DEATHDATE
October 7, 1849
DEATHPLACE
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
CAPRICORN
ALSO NOTED FOR
Editor, Literary Critic
Physical Stats
CHEST
N/A
BICEPS
N/A
WAIST
N/A
HEIGHT
5'8''(feet & inches)
1.7272 meters
172.72 cm
WEIGHT
63 kg
138.6 lbs
Edgar Allan Poe Family Members
BROTHER(S) NAME
William Henry Leonard Poe
SISTER(S) NAME
Edgar Allan Poe Marriage, Affairs and Children
SPOUSE
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1835?1847-1847)
Fame & Address
DEBUT
Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827)
FAMOUS FROM/AS
Education, Net Worth & More
More Information
Career of Edgar Allan Poe
He started with a few stories Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. While working at Southern Literary Messenger, he published many poems book reviews, critiques, and stories in the paper. He started his own journal called "The Stylus" in 1840. Feeling upset after the death of his beloved wife, he started writing. She was also featured in some of his stories as young dying women.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Edgar Allan Poe
- Did Edgar Allan Poe takes alcohol? Yes. He was caught drunk when he was working as an assistant editor at Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond.
- Was Edgar Allan Poe in the habit of Smoking? NA.
- His parents were actors and were performing "King Lear" at the time of his birth also perhaps his name was inspired by a character Prince Edgar from their act.
- He had lived a miserable childhood. His father was an alcoholic who left him, his two siblings and his mother. His mother died when he was just two years old.
- John and Frances Allan became his foster parent but never officially adopted him. He was caught under the bad habit of gambling while he was studying at the University of Virginia and lost all the money which his foster parents used to send him. He was expelled from the university.
- He does not have good relations with both biological or guardian families that's why he enlisted himself in the army with the name as Edgar. A. Perry. He also lied about his age, he was actually eighteen years old and said that he is 22, but when he started to write he took both of his surnames in his pen name and become famous as Edgar Allan Poe.
- He was a cat lover and often used to write with his cat on his shoulder. Preferably Black Cat was also a part of some of his stories.
- He married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm in 1835 and she died in 1847 because of tuberculosis and her illness and death inspired him to feature dying young women as in "Annabel Lee", "The Raven", or "Ligeia".
- To honor his poem 'The Raven', The American football team are named the Baltimore Ravens.
- His classic poem "The Raven" made him famous in almost overnight. First, he was thinking to write about a parrot instead of a raven but changed the idea thinking that it didn't evoke the right tone.
- Besides good writer he was also good in sports also hold a record of swimming six miles up the tidal James River in Virginia.
- He was also interested in cryptography and tried to popularize his field.
- He gave birth to the modern detective story. His "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is considered as the first detective story.
- He lived in several houses and one of his house in Philadelphia is preserved as a National Historic Site and is available to the public.
- He once criticised the work of his rival Rufus Wilmot Griswold who in revenge began to harm his reputation by overstating his alcoholism and psychological issues and was so mad for revenge that he even published a false biography of him.
- "The Raven" which gave him such a fame was originally sold by him for just $9 to The American Review.
- He was the creator of the term "tintinnabulation" which he first used in his poem "The Bells".
- He used many modern techniques to intensify the horror effect of his stories like doubling. When a narrator reads the story along with strange noises that correspond to the descriptions in the story.
- The most mysterious thing about him was his death. He was found in a terrific condition on the streets of Baltimore just four days before his death. All medical records, including his death certificate, have been lost. No one knows that he died because of heart disease, epilepsy, or cholera or he had committed suicide or he was murdered.
- He was a pen friend of Charles Dickens. They met once in their lifetime.
- His twelve survived copies were auctioned in 2009. His first book "Tamerlane and Other Poems" was sold at Christie's for $662,500 which made a record for a work of American literature.
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