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Edgar Allan Poe: The Father of the Short Story Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. At the age of three, Poe lost both of his parents and was taken in by a prosperous merchant named John Allan who lived in Richmond, VA. When he was seventeen, Poe attended The University of Virginia, but stayed for only a year. Poe gambled himself into debt so John Allan pulled him