![]() ![]() Thus orphaned, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe.His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. ![]() Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe JanuOctober 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. ![]()
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