Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912) was an Irish author, most famous for writing the horror novel Dracula.
== Biography ==
Abraham Stoker was born at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland on November 8th, 1847 to his parents Abraham Stoker and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley. Stoker was the third of seven children and was bed-ridden with an unknown illness until the age of seven. From 1864 to 1870, Stoker attended Trinity College in Dublin, where he excelled in athletics and eventually gained a BA and a Masters. Stoker played rugby for Dublin University, was the auditor of the College Historical Society and was the president of the University Philosophical Society, where he wrote his first paper Sensationalism in Fiction and Society. 
Stoker became interested in theatre and eventually became a theater critic for the Dublin Evening Mail. Stoker was noted for the quality of his reviews and became friends with Henry Irving after giving his production of Hamlet a good review. In 1972, Stoker wrote the short horror story "The Crystal Cup" (published by the London Society), followed by the novella "The Chain of Destiny" (published in four-parts in the periodical The Shamrock) and in 1976 he released the non-fiction work The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland. In 1878, Bram Stoker married Florence Balcomb, which caused a rift between him and his friend and Florence's former suitor Oscar Wilde, which would eventually be mended towards the end of Oscar's life. 
For 27 years, Stoker became the manager of Lyceum Theatre in the West End, as well as the business manager. Bram and Florence had their first and only child Irving Noel Thornley Stoker in 1879. 
 
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