Edgar allan poe biography ppt for kids

Edgar Allan Poe

Born: 1809

Place of Birth: Massachusetts

Died: 1849

Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be one of the most controversial and talented American writer, poet, and critic.

His unusual tales and stories were dark and mysterious and included such works as “The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Raven.” No other writer of the 19^th century was creating the kind of works as Poe and he continues to be an enigma to this day.

• Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809 to an actor father who abandoned the family early and a British actress mother who died from tuberculosis when he was only three years old.

  He and his siblings were forced to live with foster parents.

• When Poe was 13 he began to be interested in writing poems and stories but his foster father wanted him to focus on more lucrative things such as the family business.

  Poe went to the University of Virginia in 1826 and he did very well in his studies. Even though Poe