Edger Allen Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 as Edgar Poe. He was the second son to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe. Both parents were actors, and shortly after Poe’s birth, his father left his family around 1810. Edgar become an foster child before the age of three years, when his mother died on December 8, 1811 in Richmond, Virginia at the age of twenty-four years. His father died at the age of twenty-seven years old. After his mother’s death. John and Frances Allan took in Poe. His paternal grandparents took in Brother William Henry; and foster parents cared for sister Rosalie. Allan was a strict men and work as a tobacco seller and his wife wasn’t a very good parent. Poe was help by the Allan’s aid, in privates school, excelling in Latin, in writing verse and declamation. However he was looked down upon by the upper class of society, perhaps because Poe was never legally adopted by the Allan’s, he was regarded