Edgar Allan Poe , American Writer, Poet, Author, and Literary Critic in Bloomington, MN

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, January 19, 1809, the son of two actors. By the time he was three years old, his father had abandoned the family and his mother, praised for her beauty and talent, died due to complications from tuberculosis. Her death was the first in a series of brutal losses that would resonate in Poe's work throughout his life.