After this early tragedy, Poe was taken into the home of John Allan, a successful Scottish merchant in Richmond, Virginia, who dealt in a variety of goods including tobacco, cloth, wheat, tombstones, and slaves. He was left an orphan at a very young age however, following the abscondence of his father (in 1810) and the subsequent death of his mother (1811). Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 19th January, 1809.īest known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the ‘detective fiction’ genre.Įdgar Allan Poe was the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, and actor David Poe, Jr.
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