He was the first person to use the term ‘short story’. Poe carried on writing even after he’d died. The American football team the Baltimore Ravens are named in honour of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem ‘The Raven’. Poe often wrote with his Siamese cat on his shoulder. Poe coined the word ‘tintinnabulation’ to describe the sound made by the ringing of bells. On January 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe's father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia. Hope that all helps!!!
