Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809 and was the son of Elizabeth and David Poe, though, they died when he was only two years old. Poe then became the adopted son of John and Frances Allan in Virginia. He was taught in the finest boarding schools in Richmond and in 1825 went to college in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia. Unfortunately, after only one year, Poe was forced to leave due to inadequate financial support from John Allan, his stepfather, who refused to pay Poe’s gambling debts. After returning to Richmond, he then left for Boston in 1827, where he enlisted in the army and published Tamerlane, and Other Poems, his first collection of poems. Poe suffered from depression and alcoholism and in 1829 he
