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Is born Edgar Allan poe
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Edgar Allan poe was born in a Boston (Massachusetts)
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When he was 2 years old his father abandoned his family
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Since he was a child he liked to spend time reading magazines
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With no money and no job he decided to join the US Army
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His stepfather John Allen at this point decided to make up with his son and got him in a place to continue his studies in the Military Academy at West Point in 1830.
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In 1834 his father died without including him in his will
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Edgar was furious but he kept fighting to survive and in 1835 (he was 26 years old) he got a job as an editor for the art and literature magazine SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER in Richmond. There Edgar built his reputation as a fierce critic
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When he was 27 the poet married his cousin Virginia and he was only 13 years old.
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In 1840 Edgar joined George R. Graham at the Graham’s magazine
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In 1845 he published his first great horror story “THE RAVEN”a masterpiece in American literature
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In 1847 when he was only 24 the same age of her biological mother and older brother when they died, his wife died of tuberculosis
