[00:01.23]Edgar Poe, an American writer, was born in 1809.
[00:05.98]His parents were actors.
[00:08.14]Edgar was a baby when his father left the family.
[00:12.07]He was two years old when his mother died.
[00:15.22]He was taken into the home of a wealthy business man named John Allen.
[00:20.65]He then received his new name, Edgar Allen Poe.
[00:25.03]As a young man, Poe attended the University of Virginia.
[00:28.86]He was a good student, but he liked to drink alcohol and play card games for money.
[00:34.40]As an unskilled game player, he often lost money.
[00:38.38]Since he couldn’t pay his gambling losses, he left the university and began working for magazines.
[00:44.82]He worked hard, yet he was not well paid, or well-known.
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