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Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
A: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

When was Edgar Allen Poe born?
A: on January 19, 1809.

Where was he born?
A: In Boston.

What was his birth name?
A: He was born Edgar Poe.

He was the second child of whom?
A: English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe.

Who was his father?
A: Actor David Poe Jr.

He had an elder brother named what?
A: William Henry Leonard Poe.

What was his younger sister’s name?
A: Rosalie Poe.

Where did their grandfather David Poe Sr.

emigrate from?
A: County Cavan, Ireland.

Edgar may have been named after a character in what?
A: William Shakespeare's King Lear, a play that the couple was performing in 1809.

What did Edgar’s father do in 1810?
A: He abandoned their family.

His mother died a year l