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1809 Born in Boston, Mass to David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins 1812 Parents died before he was three. He was taken into the home of John Allan, a prosperous merchant in Richmond, Va., and baptized Edgar Allan Poe 1815 Studied for 5 years in England 1826 He entered the University of Virginia but stayed for only a year 1827 Wrote "Tamerlane and Other Poems" 1827 Wrote "Lenore" 1829 Wrote "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems" 1829 Wrote "Poems" 1829 Wrote "Ms. Found in a Bottle" 1831 Poems by Edgar A. Poe ... Second Edition (actually a third edition) 1831 Wrote "The Assignation" 1831 Wrote "King Pest" 1832 The Philadelphia Saturday Courier published five of his stories -- all comic or satiric 1833 MS. Found in a Bottle won a $50 prize given by the Baltimore Saturday Visitor 1834 Wrote "Berenice" 1834 Wrote "Silence-A Fable" 1835 Wrote "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" 1835 Wrote "A Predicament" 1837 Wrote "Ligeia" 1838 Wrote "William Wilson" 1838 Wrote "The Fall of the House of Usher" 1838 Wrote "Murders in the Rue Morgue" 1839 Wrote "A Descent Into The Maelstrom" 1839 Wrote "The Pit and the Pendulum" 1841 Wrote "The Masque of the Red Death" 1841 Wrote "The Mystery of Marie Rog" 1842 Wrote "The Black Cat" 1842 Wrote The Conqueror Worm Approx 1842 Wrote "The Tale-tell Heart" 1843 Wrote "The Gold Bug" 1843 Wrote "The Purloined Letter" 1843 Wrote The Raven 1843 Wrote "The Imp of the Perverse" 1844 Wrote "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" 1845 Wrote "The Cask of Amontillado" 1845 Wrote "Mellonta Tauta" 1845 Wrote "Eureka: A Prose Poem" 10/07/1849 Poe suffered from bouts of depression and madness, and he attempted suicide in 1848. In September the following year he disappeared for three days after a drink at a birthday party and on his way to visit his new fiancée in Richmond. He turned up in a delirious condition in Baltimore gutter and died on October 7, 1849. |
