Famous People Born In Boston

Edgar Allan Poe was born at boston in 1809 , and died in 1849 .

He was one good writer,critical and romantic journalist. 

He was baptized as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, and his parents died when he was young. He was picked up by a wealthy couple from Richmond, Virginia, Frances and John Allan, though it was never officially adopted.
He spent one academic year at the University of Virginia and subsequently enrolled, also briefly in the army. Their relationships with Allan broke at the time, due to ongoing disagreements with his stepfather, who often disregarded his requests for help and ended desheredándolo. His literary career began with a book of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827).

For economic reasons, he soon turned his efforts to prose, writing short stories and literary criticism for some newspapers of the time; he acquired some notoriety for his caustic and elegant style. Because of his work, lived in several cities: Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. In Baltimore in 1835, he married his cousin Virginia Clemm, who told the then thirteen years old. In January 1845, he published a poem that would make him famous: "The Raven". His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. The great dream of the writer, edit their own newspaper (which was renamed The Stylus), was never fulfilled.