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Bram Stoker

1847 - 1912

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Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912), better known by his pen name Bram Stoker, was an Irish theatre manager and novelist. He is best known as the author of Dracula (1897), an epistolary Gothic horror novel widely considered a landmark in vampire literature. The work deeply influenced future representations of fictional vampiric characters, and Stoker came to be regarded by many as "the father of vampire fiction." During the early part of his career, Stoker spent ten years in the civil service at Dublin Castle, during which time he was also a drama critic for the Dublin Evening Mail. Following this, he was employed as a theatre critic for several newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph, and occasionally wrote short stories and theatre commentaries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bram Stoker is the 293rd most popular writer (down from 223rd in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 11th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Irish Writer.

Bram Stoker is most famous for writing Dracula, which is a horror novel about Count Dracula and his attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he can find new blood and spread the undead curse.

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Among writers, Bram Stoker ranks 293 out of 7,302. Before him are Marcus Terentius Varro, Eckhart Tolle, Patrick Modiano, Claude Simon, Luigi Pirandello, and Jacob Grimm. After him are Walt Whitman, Alfonso X of Castile, Paul Auster, Karen Blixen, Alphonse Daudet, and François de La Rochefoucauld.

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Among people born in 1847, Bram Stoker ranks 6. Before him are Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Paul von Hindenburg, Maria Feodorovna, and Otto Wallach. After him are Auguste Escoffier, Joseph Pulitzer, Jesse James, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Georges Sorel, and Jean Casimir-Perier. Among people deceased in 1912, Bram Stoker ranks 10. Before him are Robert Falcon Scott, August Strindberg, Thomas Andrews, Frédéric Passy, Auguste Beernaert, and Jules Massenet. After him are Edward Smith, Frederick VIII of Denmark, Karl May, Jack Phillips, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Bram Stoker ranks 14 out of 549. Before him are George Berkeley (1685), Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), Mary Harris Jones (1837), John Scotus Eriugena (810), Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), and Brigid of Kildare (451). After him are Edmund Burke (1729), Michael Gambon (1940), Francis Bacon (1909), Eddie Jordan (1948), Sinéad O'Connor (1966), and George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Bram Stoker ranks 6. Before him are James Joyce (1882), Oscar Wilde (1854), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Jonathan Swift (1667), and Samuel Beckett (1906). After him are W. B. Yeats (1865), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Iris Murdoch (1919), and Saint Gall (550).

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