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Essay Archive - Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, grew up in Richmond, Virginia,
and in his many restless moves, lived in half a dozen Eastern cities. His
true home was always in the "misty mid region of Weir" of his own fertile
and troubled imagination.
His father was David Poe, a Baltimore actor. His actress mother,
Elizabeth, born of English parents, had come to the United States as a
child. The two were not notably talented; they played minor roles in rather
third-rate theatrical companies. Between them they barely managed to make a
living.
Edgar was the second of their three children. About....
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