Biography of Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and in his many restless moves, lived in half a dozen Eastern cities. His true home was always in the "misty mid region of Weir" of his own fertile and troubled imagination. His father was David Poe, a Baltimore actor. His actress mother, Elizabeth, born of English parents, had come to the United States as a child. The two were not notably talented; they played minor roles in rather third-rate theatrical companies. Between them they barely managed to make a living. Edgar was the second of their three children. About the time the third child was born, the father died, or disappeared, and Mrs. Poe came to Richmond with the two youngest children. The older boy, William Henry, had already been left with relatives in Baltimore. Mrs. Poe was in the last stages ....

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