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Edgar Allan Poe

(Boston, USA, 1809-Baltimore, id., 1849) Poet, American writer and critic. His parents, itinerant theater actors, died when he was still a child.

After returning to the United States, Edgar Allan Poe continued to study in private schools and attended the University of Virginia, but in 1827 his gambling and drinking led to her expulsion.

He then joined the army, where he remained two years. In 1829 he published his second book of poems, Al Aaraf, and obtained, through the influence of his adoptive father, a charge at the Military Academy at West Point.

In 1832, and after the publication of his third book, Poems, he moved to Baltimore, where he married his very young cousin Virginia Clem, who had only fourteen years old. By this time he entered as an editor at the newspaper Southern Baltimore Messenger, and later in several magazines in Philadelphia and New York City where he had settled with his wife in 1837.