Something I already knew about Edgar Allan Poe is that he wrote"The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Raven." There is also a engraving of a raven on his tombstone.
Answers to Questions
1. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. He died on October 7, 1849.
2. The tragic event that influenced his writing was when his mother, brother and foster mother all died in 1842 after contracting tuberculosis.
3. Some theories of why he died are beating, epilepsy, dipsomania, heart, and toxic disorders.
4. I think that he called Virginia home.
5. He married a girl named Virginia and she was fourteen.
6. Signed the guestbook.
7. The Raven was published January of 1845.
8. No one really knows who the Poe Toaster is. Many people have come forward but it has not been proven any of them did anything.
9. The Tell-Tale Heart and the Black Cat were written in 1842.
10. West Point military academy expelled Poe in 1831.
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