Answer:
A. Virginia
Step-by-step explanation:
- Orphaned at age two, Poe grew up in the Richmond, Virginia home of a childless couple, merchant John Allan and his wife Frances. His foster parents treated him well, though Frances was Poe's primary source of affection. Allan paid for Poe's education at schools in England and in Virginia.
- Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston. 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.
- Edgar Allan Poe spent most of his life in the state of Maryland. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809, but his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1811. Poe lived in Maryland for a significant portion of his life and considered it his home.
- The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia, one of several preserved former residences of Poe.