Bram Stokerwas born in Dublin in 1847. After attending Dublin University, he spent ten years as an Irish civil servant, trying to keep up his writing in his free time. Dracula, his most famous work, was published in 1897. Stoker died in 1912.
Jeffrey Meyers, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has written biographies of such literary greats as D.H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, & F. Scott Fitzgerald.