Edgar Allan Poe
In 1849, when Allen was 40 years old, people found Edgar Allen Poe in Botomore Street, he looked like he was drunk. Four days later, he died. No one knew how he died. During his lifetime, very few people knew that he was a writer, he was almost unknown.
During his lifetime, he wrote many scary stories. One of his writing was called "The murder in the Rue Morgue". The story talked about a man who killed his twin sisters in his old house. Why did he write so many scary tales? He got mental illness when he was young. His maniac depression made him from overexcited to depressive. People thought he was drunk, Poe did drink alcohol, but just small amount. He said that drugs and drinks could help him to spark his writing imagination and wake him up. However, they also could make him crazy.
Poe was born in 1809 in Boston. When he was a little boy, his father abandoned his family. Later, his mother got sick and died, just left three children. No one wanted to adopt Poe. After that, his uncle, Mr. Allen refused to adopt him, but his aunt, Mrs. Allen adopted him. When he was 5 years old, he moved to England, and attended school, which was called Manner House School. In 1820, whole family returned to Richmond. Poe started growing meaner and meaner, he thought the whole family was worthless. Later, he fell in love with a neighbor, her name was Elmira Royster. Her father disapproved it. When Poe attended the University of Virgina, he wrote many letters to Elmira Royster, but her father intercepted those letters. Elmire didn’t get the letters, and she thought that Poe didn’t love her anymore. Thus, she married with someone else. Poe lost love, and he wrote a love poem for her.
From that time, he could barely pay for consumption, and he began gambling, left home and quitted school. He had a widowed aunt, he called her "Muddy", and he loved her so much. When he was 27 years old, he married a 13-year-old girl whose name was Virginia. When she was 20 years old, she became ill, and four years later, she died. During that time, he barely had money and the wild behavior made him lost his job.
However, he just kept writing to support himself and Muddy, some of his writings were detective stories. No one read his stories except himself. In 1845, "The Raven" won him fame. He needed to earn money to survive, and he should go to find work or marry a rich woman. And a rich widow promised him to marry with him. However, everything left him, a week later, he was dead.