Bram sang pembuat legenda Dracula

Apa yang kamu ketahui tentang Dracula? Mahluk mengerikan yang menghisap darah dan mempengaruhi para wanita muda untuk memenuhi nafsunya. Tetapi berkat keberanian orang sekitar, dracula dapat dibunuh dengen menusuk jantungnya dengan pasak salib. Legenda Dracula inilah yang di angkat oleh Bram. Siapa sebenarnya novelis yang membuat cerita horor ini?

Lahir di 1847 pada hari ini (8 November) di '15 Marino Crescent'. Ayahnya adalah
Abraham Stoker dan ibunya Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely. Stoker adalah anak ke 3 dari 7 bersaudara.

Tetapi dia mengalami masalah pada dirinya dan mampu memulai sekolah saat umurnya 7 tahun. Karena keterlambatan dia bersekolah, dia ternyata mendapat hal-hal dan pemikiran saat absennya dari sekolah.

Setelah kesembuhannya, dia menjadi manusia normal bahkan menjadi atlet yang ternama di dublin (1864 - 70), hingga dia lulus dengan memuaskan. Kemampuan menulisnya mulai terlihat sejak dia membuat paper pertamanya "Sensationalim in Fiction and Society" juga fakta dia adalah auditor dari kampusnya.

1876 dia menulis buku non-fiksi. Lalu 1878 dia bertemu dengan Florence Balcombe dan menikah dengannya. Hingga mereka mendapatkan anak satu-satunya Irving Noel pada setahun berikutnya. menikah dengan Florence membuat dia mengenal kalangan atas seperti Sir Conan Doyle hingga akhirnya dia bisa menjadi terkenal. Stoker meninggal pada 1912 dan abunya disebar di 'Garden of rest'

Walaupun dia telah lama tiada, tetapi karyanya tetap abadi.

He was born Abraham Stoker in 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent – then as now called "The Crescent" – in Fairview, a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker and the feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely. Stoker was the third of seven children. Abraham and Charlotte were members of the Clontarf Church of Ireland parish and attended the parish church (St. John the Baptist located on Seafield Road West) with their children, who were both baptised there.

Stoker was an invalid until he started school at the age of seven — when he made a complete and astounding recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."

After his recovery, he became a normal young man, even excelling as an athlete (he was named University Athlete) at Trinity College, Dublin (1864 – 70), from which he graduated with honours in mathematics. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society".

In 1876, while employed as a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book (The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, published 1879) and theatre reviews for The Dublin Mail, a newspaper partly owned by fellow horror writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. His interest in theatre led to a lifelong friendship with the English actor Henry Irving. He also wrote stories, and in 1872 "The Crystal Cup" was published by the London Society, followed by "The Chain of Destiny" in four parts in The Shamrock.

In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world.

The Stokers had one son, Irving Noel, who was born on December 31, 1879.

Bram Stoker died in 1912, and was cremated and his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders Green Crematorium. After Irving Noel Stoker's death in 1961, his ashes were added to that urn. The original plan had been to keep his parents' ashes together, but after Florence Stoker's death her ashes were scattered at the Gardens of Rest.

sumber : http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6988.Bram_Stoker