Tension developed later as John Allan and Edgar repeatedly clashed over debts, including those incurred by gambling, and the cost of secondary education for the young man. Although they never formally adopted him, Poe was with them well into young adulthood.

Thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.Born in Boston, he was the second child of two actors. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. The Colloquy of Monos and Una is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe JanuOctober 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. For years, he had been planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. His wife died of tuberculosis two years after its publication. In January 1845 Poe published his poem, 'The Raven', to instant success. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. Later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point and declaring a firm wish to be a poet and writer, Poe parted ways with John Allan.Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. With the death of Frances Allan in 1829, Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement. It was at this time his publishing career began, albeit humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to 'a Bostonian'. Poe quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and enlisted in the Army in 1827 under an assumed name.

Poe attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money.

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