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Edgar Allan Poe Research Paper

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Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were Eliza Poe and David Poe Jr. He had two siblings named William Leonard Henry Poe and Rosalie Mackenzie Poe. Edgar Allan Poe grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He married Virginia Eliza Clemm on September 22, 1835. She was only 13 while he was 27. They were first cousins. Virginia died 12 years later. Poe died 2 years after her on October 7, 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 40. Poe is most famous for his dark poetry in the early 1800’s. He was part of the American Romantic Movement. Edgar Allan Poe was considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He was credited with contributing to the emerging of science fiction. Poe had a tough life, so

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