Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe(1809-49) was born in Boston. ... Young Edgar Poe was taken in by John Allan, a wealthy merchant - hence his middle name. ... He spent his first term on wine, women and song- and provoked a massive row with his step-father, which ended with Poe running away and joining the army (under the name of Edgar A. ... Allan begged her husband, on her death-bed, to find their estranged son.