Edgar+Allan+Poe

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 * Poe's hero was Lord Byron.**

~Sarah Muffett put this here~ Edgar had a mystery visitor leave 3 roses and a bottle of cognac on his grave every year, until just recently when the visitor stopped coming.

Poe didn't receive any awards, but the Edgar awards were named after him. _Katie Young.

His first book was named, __Tamerine and Other Poems.__ _Kayla Jones

Poe had went to college but did not finish he soon got in drinking large amounts of alcohol and spending all of his step fathers money. - Miranda Craig

He enlisted in the United States Army as a private using the name Edgar A. Perry. - Paige Waren

He became an alcoholic after the death of his wife - Kaleb Isbill