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Edgar Allen Poe Biography

Edgar Allan Poe was born at 33 Hollis Street, Boston, Mass., on January 19, 1809. He was a son, one of three children, of poverty stricken actors, David and Elizabeth Poe. Shortly after Poe was born they went to New York were his father had abandoned his family. Edgar Allen Poe’s mother, Elizabeth, had to support the family by continuing to do Theatre. In the winter of 1811, Edgar was about two; Elizabeth was overtaken by a fatal illness, tuberculosis. She died on December 8th, 1811. Elizabeth left three orphan ch...

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