{"id":3389,"date":"2015-01-19T09:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2017-04-23T08:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:45:26","slug":"six-facts-about-edgar-allan-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/six-facts-about-edgar-allan-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Facts About Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nYou may know that Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Raven<\/em> and\u00a0The Fall of the House of Usher <\/em>but did you know that . . .<\/p>\n

1 – Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston. \u00a0He died on October 7, 1849.<\/p>\n

2 – His parents were both actors. In fact, Poe may have been named after a character in King Lear<\/em>. His parents performed the play the year of Poe’s birth.<\/p>\n

3 – Poe’s father abandoned the family in 1810. Sadly, Poe’s mother passed away in 1811. Edgar was raised by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia.<\/p>\n

4 – In 1835 Poe married Virginia Clemm, his first cousin. \u00a0She was thirteen-year-old at the time. \u00a0They remained married until her death in 1847.<\/p>\n

5 – Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre because of his work,\u00a0The Murders in the Rue Morgue<\/em>.<\/p>\n

6\u00a0– Poe died in 1849 at the age of 40. The cause of his death is a mystery. Theories about the matter include alcohol, carbon monoxide poisoning, suicide and even rabies.<\/p>\n

Partial List of Poe’s Work<\/h2>\n