Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker was born in Ireland in 1847. His job was writing his opinions of new plays for newspapers. Because he was very positive about a famous actor, Sir Henry Irving, in Shakespeare’s play, ‘Hamlet’, the two men became friends. Irving had a theatre in London. He gave Stoker a job as his business manager, which meant that Stoker was very busy but also got the chance to travel widely, although never to Roumania, where the Dracula stories happen. He also met many famous people, like U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt as well as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who wrote the books with Sherlock Holmes. While he was working for Irving, Stoker started writing novels: especially horror and ghost stories and science fiction. Stoker did not believe in it: although he was interested in the paranormal, he believed in science too. Stoker only became famous as a writer when they made films of his Dracula stories, long after his death in 1912.