Talks about the life of Edgar Allan Poe, and how his obstacles in real life encouraged him to write the works he did, also talks about his stories and poems.

Edgar Allan Poe, born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe worked there as an actress. His father, David Poe, abandoned the family when Poe was only 2. His mother took Edgar, his brother William, and sister Rosalie to Richmond, where his mother died on December 8, 1811, and Edgar was taken into the family of John and Frances Allan, a childless couple. He was taken by the Allan family to England in 1815. Edgar spent …

…of them have a narrator. They have mysterious characters, and deal with death. His life has influenced him a lot in his stories. He used to write romantic and humorous stories. How ever after the tragic events that happened through out his life, he became more mysterious and deranged. A lot of the people that he was close to either died or turned there back on him. He was in numerous depressions, and drank heavily.