Bram Stoker

Abraham Stoker was an Irish writer, barrister, literary critic and theatre manager. He was the author of the Gothic horror novel Dracula, published in 1897, and the creator of the fictional character Count Dracula. The work and its antagonist are regarded as milestones in Gothic and vampire literature. He was born in 1847 and died in 1912. He was the third of seven children and was bedridden for the first seven years of his life with an undiagnosed illness. He was educated at home before enrolling at Trinity College Dublin in 1864, where he excelled as a rugby athlete and was a prominent member of the student union and the philosophical society.