- Edgar Allan Poe's life was considered to be a mystery.
- His parents were actors.
- Poe never knew a lot about his parents.
- His father left the family and his mother died when he was only three years old.
- Edgar Allan Poe lived with John Allan and Frances Allan in Richmond, Virginia.
- John Allan was a very successful merchant who sold tobacco.
- He was close with Frances, but not with John.
- He wrote poems on the back of Allan's business papers since he preferred to write poetry instead of working for profits.
- In 1826, Edgar Allan Poe went to the University of Virginia.
- He gambled when he was in college in order to earn money to pay off his college costs since Allan didn't pay for it all.
- He left the Allan's home after he found out that his fiancee Elmira Royster got engaged to another man.
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