Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on 1/19/1809. His parents were David and Elizabeth Poe. He had a brother and sister named Henry, and Rosalie. Elizabeth Poe died in 1811, when Edgar was 2 years old. Edgar was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Allan. John Allan was a merchant and Edgar grew up with them and went to good schools.  When Poe was 6, he went to a school in England for 5 years. He learned Latin and French, and he also learned math and history.  He returned to school in America to continue studying.  Edgar Allan Poe went to the University of Virginia in 1826 when he was 17 . John Allan had plenty of money but  he only gave Edgar about a third of what he needed. Edgar was good at Latin and French. Edgar became a drinker and quickly he had to quit school to pay his debt in less than a year. Edgar had no money and no skills, so he went to Boston and joined the U.S. Army in 1827,when he was 18. He got the rank of sergeant major. In 1829, Mrs. Allan died and John Allan tried to be friendly towards Edgar and signed Edgar’s application to West Point. In 1831, Edgar Allan Poe went to New York City where he had some of his poetry published. He submitted stories to a number of magazines and they were all rejected. Poe had no friends, no job, and he had trouble with his money. He sent a letter to John Allan begging for help but John rejected him and help didn’t  come to him. John Allan died in 1834 and did not mention Edgar in his will.  In 1835, Edgar finally got a job as an editor of a newspaper. He died in the hospital on Sunday, October 7, 1849.
Edgar Allan Poe was known for his horror stories. He was said to be the father, of horror stories .He wrote about “murder revenge,torture, the plague, being buried alive, and insanity”.One of his great stories was The Tell Tale Heart. One of Edgar’s great talents is making things sound scary. Sometimes he repeats the words kind of slowly, or he mixes the words in a way that it just makes it sound creepy. He is also great with details. In one paragraph from The Tell Tale Heart you can see what a great writer he was and that he must have put so much time into this story. He also repeats

I think Edgar Allan Poe is a great writer because of his technique for making the stories he writes scary and interesting. I think that Edgar could have gotten his characters from either his childhood or adult hood. In some cases he could be describing somebody that he knew and then changed stuff about them except for what they looked like so he could describe them.  I liked reading his work but I do not think I would read them for fun.