EDGAR ALLAN POE

When he was born

1809-1849

Ông làm những nghề nào

author, poet, editor and literary critic

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was the pioneer of short story

considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre

defining the gothic literary genre

where did he born

Boston, Massachusetts

Bio

his parents died when he was very young so he was raised by John and Frances Allan

attended school at the University of Virginia and then entered the army for a short time

while in college he became an avid gambler

he was force to leave the U when Allan refused to pay Poe’s gambling debts

Poe’s wife

When he left United States Military Academy, Poe moved into the home of his aunt - Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia in Baltimore, Maryland.

He married Virginia in 1836, who was 14 years old

After Virginia’s death from tuberculosis, Poe’s lifelong struggle with depression and alcoholism

What is the first collection of Poe

Poems: Tamerlane and other poems in 1827

What is second collection of Poe

AI Aaraaf, Tamerland and Minor poems in 1829

Which one marks him as the master of horror

The cask of amontillado

Tell some of Poe’s best-known short stories

The fall of the house of ushers

The tell-tale heart

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Tales of terror

The black cat

the cask of amontillado

the fall of the house of usher

ligeia

the masque of the red death

The detective fiction

the murders in the rue morgue

Poe’s death

On October 3, 1849 he was found in a state of semi-consciousness.

Poe died four days later of “acute congestion of the brain”.

some evidence shows that Poe may have been suffering from rabies.