Burial Day Books. Edgar Allan Poe Museum : Poe's life, legacy, and Works : Richmond, Virginia. Neurotic Poets - Edgar Allan Poe. Personal tragedy was, unfortunately, a recurring theme throughout Edgar Allan Poe's life.
Born in Boston in 1809 to actor parents, he never knew his father David Poe, who left his mother and disappeared soon after Edgar was born, then died in Virginia in 1810. His mother, who suffered from tuberculosis (then called consumption), died in Richmond, Virginia in late 1811, orphaning Edgar, his older brother William Henry, and half-sister Rosalie. Irregular Creatures.
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Featuring an unholy host of bizarre beasties and mythological mutants. Flying cats!