About Edgar Allan Poe!

Edgar Allan Poe was a short storywritter, poet, editor, and literary critic. As early as the age of 15, he wrote these words in memory of a female acquaintance, "The requiem for the loveliest dead that ever died so young." He wrote many short stories such as Thou Art the Man, The Black Cat (of course), the black cat was about a crazy man that killed his cats and his wife. He killed his wife because she wouldnt let him kill the second cat he got after he killed the first one. And of course the police found their body when they went over to the man house. The Raven, which was about a lonely man whoses wife had died and left him. A bird and a/the raven was some things that were evil and i think they were trying to scare him. He also wrote a play and a couple of essays and poems.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were actors. His father died around 1810 and his mother died around 1811 leaving three children including him. His brother William died young and his sister Rosalie became insane. They all were put in different homes when their parents died.

He attended University of Virginia (1826-27), but was expelled for not paying his gambling debts. In 1836 he married his cousin, that was 13 years of age. She busted a blood vessel in 1842, and remained a virtual invalid until her death from tuberculosis five years later. Edgar Poe had started to drink alcohol and used drugs. He had an affair with the poet Sarah Helen Whitman.

His best selling was "The Conchologist's First Book (1839). It was based on his friend Thomas Wyatt's work, which sold poorly because of its high prize". He suffered from depression and madness, and he attempted suicide in 1848. Three days after a drink at a party he was visiting to his fiancee in Richmond, he turned up in delirious condition in Baltimore gutter and died on October 7, 1849.

The way Edgar Allan Poe wrote all his stories, essay and poems was based on the things that he went through in his life. How he felt, i think he wrote it out in his short stories, essays, and poems. The two short stories i've read of his has been evil and weird in some kind of way. "The Raven", it was weird about the bird being evil, and it showed that he felt lonely once his 13 year old cousin (wife) had died. "The Black Cat", the man in that story was a crazy lunatic, what crazy man would want to kill his wife over something very stupid like that. That is just pure evil for him to have the heart to kill anything for no inparticular reason.