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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MaroonTrucker28 on 2024-08-26 00:43:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Edgar Allan Poe became a writer after a failed military career. He enlisted in the US Army in 1827. He failed as a cadet at West Point, and declared his intention to become a writer. His first works (a collection of poems) were written while in the Army