1. EDGAR ALLAN POE 1809-1849 Anna Conover and Brittany Woychak

2. 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

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

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

5. 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

6. 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?

9. WORKS CITED  Knepper. "Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum and Print Culture." Networks. H Southern Lit, Sept. 2014. Web. 1 Feb. 2015.  Robinson, Marilynne. "On Edgar Allan Poe by Marilynne Robinson." On Edgar Allan Poe by Marilynne Robinson. The New York Review of Books, 2015. Web. 03 Feb. 2015.