TWA Poet: Edgar Allan Poe

1809 - 1849

It's the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe (1809), born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were both actors, but his father left the family in 1810, and his mother died of tuberculosis a year later. The young Poe was raised by the Allans, a Scottish merchant family in Richmond, Virginia, who gave the boy his middle name. They sent him to the Univ…