one of his friends john hamilton mckenzie fell out of a tree and broke his arm. and then before it had a chance to he broke up his arm again and his mother told him don't go outside, stay home and just entertain this little kid edgar so they entertained him by telling stories. and john hamilton mckenzie recalls but paula tell him stories and he would embellish them and add them to the stories but eventually he got an interesting poetry and by the age of 13 he compiled in a poetry that he wanted his foster father to help them get up publish. his foster father said he's a little too proud of himself, the last thing you want to do is publish poetry but by the time his 18, he published his first book it was probably written while he was in richmond attending charlottesville, early on poe probably thought he would be like most writers of the day and live off of family money or teaching job or government job in the customs house. but he became the first american writer to make his living solely off his writing. i don't think those entirely by choice. who would've loved

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