John William Polidori
1795
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1821
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
educated at: University of Edinburgh, Ampleforth College
occupation: writer
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story. Although the story was at first erroneously credited to Lord Byron, both Byron and Polidori affirmed that the author was Polidori. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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