Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. At the age of three, Poe lost both of his parents and was taken in by a prosperous merchant named John Allan who lived in Richmond, VA.

When he was seventeen, Poe attended The University of Virginia, but stayed for only a year. Poe gambled himself into debt so John Allan pulled him

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