Question: When and where was Edgar Allan Poe born

Answer: January 19, 1809 Boston, MA

Question: What happened to Poe’s mother and father?

Answer: 3 years after his birth, his mother died and his father left him.

Question: How did Poe get the name “Allan”?

Answer: It was added by the people who took him in, his orphan family.

Question: What famous military school did Poe attend and what happened while

he was there?

Answer: United States Military Academy, he said he would get himself expelled, and got thrown out.

Question: What tragic childhood events influenced his writing?

Answer: Losing his parents and getting separated from his siblings.

Question: Why did Poe leave the University of Virginia?

Answer: Lack of money.

Question: Originally Poe started his writing career doing what?

Answer: He started his career by being a magazine editor.

Question: Who did Poe marry? What happened to his wife?

Answer: He married Virginia Clem, she died May 16’ 1836.

Question: What is the name of Poe’s first literary publishing?

Answer: Tamerlane and other poems in 1827.

Question: Which poems made Poe famous? When was that poem written?

Answer: “MS. Found in a Bottle”, it won a literacy prize and was published in Baltimore.