"'Anxiety,' though, 'was his childhood bedfellow,' Ackroyd says. Born in Boston in 1809 to Southern parents--traveling actors 'whose status was just a little higher than that of vagabonds'--Edgar was orphaned at age 2 when his father abandoned the family and his mother died of consumption; he was taken in and raised by friends of his mother. As a youth, he was described by some as having 'a very sweet disposition ... always cheerful.' It did not last long: 'Young Poe harbored a grudge against the world,' Ackroyd says."
Allen Bara reviews Peter Ackroyd's Poe: A Life Cut Short in The Baltimore Sun.
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