Bram Stoker

Abraham 'Bram' Stoker was born in 1847 in Clontarf, near Dublin. He was so sickly as a small child that he could hardly walk until he was about seven, but he recovered and became a champion athlete at Trinity College Dublin. He worked as a civil servant at Dublin Castle and wrote theater reviews in his spare time. A review of the actor Henry Irving's Hamlet led to a friendship, and in 1878 Stoker moved to London to become business manager of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for about twenty-seven years. That same year he married Florence Balcombe. Alongside his theater work he wrote novels and stories. Dracula (1897), told through letters, diaries and newspaper clippings, follows a Transylvanian count who travels to England and the group who hunt him; it drew on Stoker's research into eastern European folklore and history. The novel was only moderately successful in his lifetime but later became famous through stage and film versions. He died in London in 1912.

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Faith: Born to a family of Irish Protestant descent. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica