As per his foster mother's deathwish, Poe reconciled with his foster father, who coordinated an appointment for him to the United States Military Academy at West Point. That same year, he released his first book, Al Aaraf. He was estranged from his foster father at some point in this period over gambling debts Poe had acquired while trying to get more spending money, and so Poe enlisted in the United States Army as a private using the name Edgar A. After serving an apprenticeship in Pawtucket, Poe registered at the University of Virginia in 1826, but only stayed there for one year. After attending the Misses Duborg boarding school in London and Manor School in Stoke Newington, London, England, Poe moved back to Richmond, Virginia, with the Allans in 1820. Although his middle name is often misspelled as 'Allen,' it is actually 'Allan' after this family. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died of tuberculosis when he was only two, so Poe was taken into the home of John Allan, a successful tobacco merchant in Richmond, Virginia. Edgar Allan Poe (Janu– October 7, 1849) was born to a Scots-Irish family in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr. His exact burial location is also a source of controversy.

Poe died at the age of 40, the cause of his death a final mystery. He is also often credited with inventing the gothic fiction story. He is best known for his Tales of the macabre and his Poems, as well as being one of the early practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction, as well as crime fiction in the United States. Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, editor and critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantics.

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