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Where was Edgar Allan Poe born and in what year?

Boston, 1809. During his brief lifetime, he perfected a new literary form - the detective story and the tale of terror.

Edgar Allan Poe's genius was more widely acknowledged in _________.

France. However, at the time of his death he had become one of the most famous writers in the United States.

Which story begins with the following: 'True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and {am;} but why will you say that I am mad?...?

The Tell-Tale Heart.

According to one of his poems, who lived in a kingdom by the sea?

Annabel Lee.

Which was one of his earliest science-fiction tales?

The Balloon-Hoax.

What was Edgar Allan Poe's first book titled?

Tamerlane and Other Poems. At the age of 18, Poe ran away to Boston where he published this book. That same year he joined the Army.

'Nevermore' is famous for which of his pieces?

The Raven. Some people believe that 'The Raven' was a poem written for his wife, Virginia Clemm, who was suffering from a disease that would eventually take her life in 1847.

Edgar Allan Poe married 13 year old, Virginia Clemm, who was __________.

his cousin. After her death, he became engaged to widow Elmira Shelton, his boyhood sweetheart. They never married.

'There could be no doubt of the design of my tormentors -oh! most unrelenting! oh! most demoniac of men! I shrank from the glowing metal to the center of the cell.' Where can you read this line?

The Pit and the Pendulum.

When and where did Edgar Allan Poe die?

Baltimore, 1849.