Monster Essays - Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
Abraham (Bram) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 at 15 The Crescent,
Clontarf, North of Dublin, the third of seven children. For the first 7
years of his life Stoker was bedridden with a myriad of childhood diseases
which afforded him much time to reading. By the time he went to college,
Stoker had somehow overcome his childhood maladies and while at Trinity
College, Dublin, the honor student was involved in soccer and was a
marathon running champion. He was also involved in various literary and
dramatic activities, a precursor to his later interests in the theater and
his involvement with the rising action Henry Irving,....
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