Edgar Allan Poe facts and trivia

• Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Poe had a brother, William, and a sister, Rosalie.
• Edgar Allan Poe married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin, who died at an early age.
• His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".
• Edgar Allan Poe attended the University of Virginia.
• In January 1845 Allan Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success.
• The Baltimore Ravens football team is named after Poe's poem The Raven, which he wrote in Baltimore.
• Poe attempted suicide in 1848
• Poe served two years in the army.
• On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore.
• Edgar Allan Poe was buried in an unmarked grave.
• The cause of his death has been variously attributed to Brain congestion, alcohol, cholera, heart disease, drugs, tuberculosis, rabies, suicide, and other agents.
• Every year since 1949, an anonymous fan known as the "Poe Toaster" has visited Poe's grave on the night of his birthday and has left a partially filled bottle of cognac and 3 roses.