EDGAR ALLAN POE Anna Conover and Brittany Woychak

BIOGRAPHY  Born 19 Jan 1809  Parents dead before age of 3  Adopted by Allan family in Richmond  Enlisted in Boston 1827  Moved to Baltimore  Became editor of literary magazine in Richmond  Virginia dies 1847  Dies in Baltimore 1849

ADDICTIONS  Purely literary drug references  Gambling early in life  Lifelong binges and abstinence periods

FAMOUS WORKS  The Raven  The Tell-Tale Heart  The Black Cat  The Fall of the House of Usher  The Cask of Amontillado

CULTURAL ISSUES  Different than many other writers because he did not necessarily focus on a particular event  Tied his work to himself and his lifestyle  He used unreliable narrators often

SIDE QUESTIONS  Did Poe make his works so that the readers would interpret the works themselves or evaluate Poe’s sanity and his life?  Comparing the “Tell Tale Heart” and the “Black Cat,” what makes the unreliable narrators similar and different?

WORKS CITED  Knepper. "Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum and Print Culture." Networks. H Southern Lit, Sept Web. 1 Feb  Robinson, Marilynne. "On Edgar Allan Poe by Marilynne Robinson." On Edgar Allan Poe by Marilynne Robinson. The New York Review of Books, Web. 03 Feb