39 Facts About Edgar Allan Poe

1. Edgar Allan Poe was an early to mid 19th century writer, poet and artist.

2. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, and died on October 7, 1849.

3. In 1881, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story called "A Descent into the Maelstrom.

4. Edgar Allan Poe was the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007.

5. Edgar Allan Poe is believed to have lived in the home at the age of 23 when he first lived with Maria Clemm and Virginia.

6. Edgar Allan Poe had an influence on cryptography beyond increasing public interest during his lifetime.

7. Edgar Allan Poe is particularly respected in France, in part due to early translations by Charles Baudelaire.

8. Edgar Allan Poe was known as a writer of fiction and became one of the first American authors of the 19th century to become more popular in Europe than in the United States.

9. Edgar Allan Poe wrote much of his work using themes aimed specifically at mass-market tastes.

10. Edgar Allan Poe reinvented science fiction, responding in his writing to emerging technologies such as hot air balloons in "The Balloon-Hoax".

11. Edgar Allan Poe once wrote in a letter to Thomas Holley Chivers that he did not dislike Transcendentalists, "only the pretenders and sophists among them".

12. On October 3, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, "in great distress, and.

13. Edgar Allan Poe moved to a cottage in Fordham, New York, in what is the Bronx.

14. Edgar Allan Poe began to drink more heavily under the stress of Virginia's illness.

15. Edgar Allan Poe described it as breaking a blood vessel in her throat.

16. Edgar Allan Poe failed to show up for a meeting with Thomas to discuss the appointment in mid-September 1842, claiming to have been sick, though Thomas believed that he had been drunk.

17. In June 1840, Edgar Allan Poe published a prospectus announcing his intentions to start his own journal called The Stylus.

18. Edgar Allan Poe left Burton's after about a year and found a position as assistant at Graham's Magazine.

19. In the summer of 1839, Edgar Allan Poe became assistant editor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.

20. Edgar Allan Poepublished several poems, book reviews, critiques, and stories in the paper.

21. Edgar Allan Poe became assistant editor of the periodical in August 1835, but was discharged within a few weeks for having been caught drunk by his boss.

22. Edgar Allan Poehelped Poe place some of his stories, and introduced him to Thomas W White, editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond.

23. Throughout his attempts to live as a writer, Edgar Allan Poe repeatedly had to resort to humiliating pleas for money and other assistance.

24. Edgar Allan Poe decided to leave West Point by purposely getting court-martialed.

25. Edgar Allan Poe traveled to West Point and matriculated as a cadet on July 1, 1830.

26. Edgar Allan Poe was finally discharged on April 15, 1829, after securing a replacement to finish his enlisted term for him.

27. Edgar Allan Poe was promoted to "artificer", an enlisted tradesman who prepared shells for artillery, and had his monthly pay doubled.

28. Edgar Allan Poe gave up on the university after a year, but did not feel welcome returning to Richmond, especially when he learned that his sweetheart Royster had married Alexander Shelton.

29. Edgar Allan Poe may have become engaged to Sarah Elmira Royster before he registered at the one-year-old University of Virginia in February 1826 to study ancient and modern languages.

30. The family sailed to Britain in 1815, and Edgar Allan Poe attended the grammar school for a short period in Irvine, Scotland before rejoining the family in London in 1816.

31. Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, at age 40; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, "brain congestion", cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.

32. In January 1845, Edgar Allan Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success.

33. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, the second child of two actors.

34. Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

35. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

36. Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet and short story writer.

37. Edgar Allan Poe remains one of our most famous American writers, one-hundred and sixty years after his death.

38. Edgar Allan Poe could have been describing it in The Fall of the House of Usher.

39. Edgar Allan Poe completed many works of both fiction and nonfiction in his life, including "The Raven", "The Fall of the House of Usher", Eureka, and most famously, the "Tell-Tale Heart.