Edgar Allan Poe Questions

1. Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston.  He died on October 7, 1849.
2. Everyone in his family dying is what influenced his writing.
3. The 5 theories on what caused Poe's death are suicide, murder, cholera, rabies, and influenza.
4. Poe called the state of Virginia home.
5. They think that even thought he lived in Richmond when he was little that Baltimore defines the beginning and end of his life.
6. Poe was kicked out of West Point Military Academy.
7. Poe married Virginia Clemm and she was not even 14.
8. I think the Virginia is too young to get married to someone who is 27 years old.
9. Murders in the Rue Morgue was the first detective story.
10. It was published in January of 1843.

Info: http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp
http://www.eapoe.org/index.htm
http://www.poemuseum.org/index.php