Who was Bram Stoker?

Bram Stoker was an Irish newspaper reporter and the author of short stories and twelve novels. He became most famous for the writing of his 1897 novel Dracula, a novel originally called The Undead.
Stoker, one of seven children, graduated with honors from Trinity College in Dublin. He wrote for The Daily Telegraph from the 1890s onward, becoming a member of the literary staff from 1905 to 1910. Stoker also worked as the business manager for the actor Henry Irving.
Some have said the seeds of Dracula were planted in Stoker's childhood. He was sickly child, and his mother sometimes told him frightening stories. He himself said that he had much time to think as a child and that these thoughts were "fruitful" later in life. Nineteenth-century precursors to his Dracula include John Polidori's The Vampyre and Thomas Prest's Varney the Vampire, but Stoker's novel was the one that captured the public imagination most fully.