Born in Boston, United States of America, January 19, 1809 and died on October 7, 1849, in Baltimor

In January 2009, celebrating two centuries of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, surely integrity consulting group one of the greatest figures of American literature and one of the men who exercised more influence on the imagination (not only literature but also cinema, theater , the music, the visual arts ...) of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Born in Boston, United States of America, January 19, 1809 and died on October 7, 1849, in Baltimore, was a writer, poet, novelist, literary critic and editor, farming (or even inventing) genres such as police , science fiction, terror, horror, fantastic ... In fact, next to the Jules Verne, he is one of the forerunners of modern science fiction and fantastic literature. Some of his novels, and remember "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (Crimes in the Rue Morgue), "The Purloined Letter" (The Purloined Letter) or "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (The Mystery of Marie Roget), appearing among the earliest works recognized as police officers. He was also the initiator of an authentic modern American literature. All owe him a lot.
Parents of Edgar Allan Poe came from Irish and Scottish families. He was the son of an actor, David Poe Jr., who abandoned the family in 1810, and an actress, Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, died of tuberculosis in 1811. Orphaned at the age of two, Poe jumped into the lap of Francis Allan, it seems that idolized him, and husband John Allan, a tobacco merchant from Richmond, successful trader integrity consulting group in life, however, never showed particular affection for young. Never legally adopted, integrity consulting group despite using the surname Edgar Allan. Traveled to London, where he attended school Misses Duborg, and Manor School at Stoke Newington, after having returned to Richmond in 1820 family. In 1826, he studied for a year at the University of Virginia, being expelled from the mercy of their adventurous and bohemian style. Partying, gambling, women and alcohol, it seems likely her ultra: what would be a harmless dose for most, it was revealed fulminant effect. For all this, and many debts to the game, quarreled with his stepfather, and he enlisted integrity consulting group in the army under the name Edgar A. Perry, in 1827. In that year, Poe published his first book, "Tamerlane and Other Poems". After two years of military service, was dismissed. In 1829, the stepmother dies, he published his second book, "Al Aaraf", and reconciled with his stepfather, who helps him to join the Military Academy at West Point. Disobedient and rebellious, has just kicked off again in 1831. Was the drop that overflowed and stepfather disowned him permanently. Died in 1834, without considering it in his will.
Edgar Allan Poe moved to Baltimore, home of one of his widowed aunt, Maria Clemm, and her daughter, Virginia Clemm. During this time, Poe wrote a lot of fiction that helped him survive. In late 1835, he became the newspaper "Sothern Literary Messenger" editor in Richmond, a post he held until 1837. However, house, in secret, in 1836, his cousin Virginia, who had then only thirteen.
In 1837, Poe went to New York, where he spent fifteen months apparently unproductive, before moving to Philadelphia, and shortly after publishing "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym." In the summer of 1839, is assistant editor of "Burton's Gentleman's Magazine," where he published a number integrity consulting group of articles, stories and reviews. That same year, was published in two volumes in his collection "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" (translated into French by Baudelaire as "Histoires Extraordinaires" and Portuguese as Extraodinárias Stories), which, despite the failure integrity consulting group of sales, quickly becomes a reference American literature.
Shortly after, Virginia Clemm discovers integrity consulting group who suffers from tuberculosis, and the denouement is fast. The illness and death of the woman Poe lead to excessive consumption of alcohol and, after some time, this left the "Burton's Gentleman's Magazine" to find a new job. Returns to New York, where he worked briefly at the "Evening Mirror", before becoming the "Broadway Journal" editor. In early 1845, was published in the newspaper "Evening Mirror," his popular poem "The Raven" ("The Raven"). In 1846, the "Broadway Journal" went bankrupt, and Poe moved to a house in the Bronx, known today as the "Poe Cottage" house museum integrity consulting group open to the public, Virginia where he died the following year. Increasingly unstable, Poe tries to seduce the poet Sarah Helen Whitman, engagement would eventually fail, allegedly because of erratic behavior and alcohol Poe, but probably also due to the intrusiveness of the mother of the bride. At this time, according to their own reports, Poe attempts suicide, soaking in laudanum. Ultimately regr