Ashley-+Dracula

=**__  Author Bram Stocker;   __**= Little is known about author of the well known book, Dracula. Most biographers have had to rely on public records to determine the interests and life of author Bram Stoker. What they do know is that Bram Stocker was born in Dublin, Ireland, on November 8, 1847, the third son of seven children. He graduated with honors in science, at Trinity College in Dublin, and he later returned for an M.A. degree. He was always interested in writing because he temporarily worked as a drama critic. In 1878, Stoker married Florence Balcombe. She had the choice of marrying either Bram Stoker or Oscar Wilde. Bram and Oscar remained friends afterwards, and Bram was also friends with Arthur Conan Doyle, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, and once he even met Theodore Roosevelt. Bram Stocker was known as being a writer with great energy and talent. He delivered lectures, traveled extensively, toured with Irving's acting company, and he wrote several novels, as well as several non-fiction items. His first novel was called The Snake’s Pass, and was published in 1890. Then Bram wrote the book Dracula over a period of several years, starting in 1890, and was finally published in 1897. The book was never been out of publication since its release. While recovering from a seizure that occurred shortly after his close friend’s death, He wrote a non-fiction book which he called Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irvin. Stoker did not cease to write stories of horror and mystery after he finished Dracula. After Dracula, his novels of mystery and horror include The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), The Lady of the Shroud (1909), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911). Regardless of which novel Stoker himself considered his best, Dracula remains his most popular work, and it has spawned countless adaptations and spin-offs in plays, novels, and movies, as well as comic books. In his last years, Stoker's health declined rapidly, and the cause of his death, though clouded by mystery, has generated some substantial amount of discussion. his biography, cites Stoker's death certificate, which has as the cause of death the medical phrase Locomotor Ataxy--also called Tabes Dorsalis--known in those days as general paralysis of the insane, which implies, therefore, that Stoker had contracted syphilis, presumably around the turn of the century, and died of it. Stoker died on April 20, 1912, at the age of sixty-four.