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Abraham (Bram) Stoker was born November 8, 1947 in north Dublin, the third of seven children. For the first 7 years of his life he (Stoker) with a lot of childhood diseases which afforded him much time to reading. By the time he went to college, Stoker had somehow overcome his chilhood illnesses and while at Trintiy College, Dublin, the honor student was involved in soccer and was amarathon running champion. He was also involved in various literary …

…his masterwork, Dracula, which, seven years later, would launch its bloodthirsty protagonist, Count Dracula (If not Stoker himself),on a course toward world-wide acclaim. Henry Irving died in 1905 leaving Stoker for the first time in his life without a job. And one yaer after Henry Irving's death Stoker wrote "Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving," Stoker managed to write other novels after this point until the time ofhis death in 1912 at the age of 64(Monkey Notes)