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Elizabeth Kostova
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Elizabeth Johnson Kostova is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.
Elizabeth Kostova
Elizabeth Kostova
The Historian
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The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad Țepeș and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel. She worked on the book for ten years and then sold it within a few months to Little, Brown and Company, which bought it for US$2 million.
The Historian's first edition cover shows a blood red curtain with a snippet of a picture of a man's face laid across it. Although the book is a vampi
The Historian's first edition cover shows a blood red curtain with a snippet of a picture of a man's face laid across it. Although the book is a vampire novel, Kostova promised herself "that only a cup of blood would be spilled" in the novel.
Vampire-killing kit at the Mercer Museum
Vampire-killing kit at the Mercer Museum
According to Kostova, Bram Stoker "created Dracula as a brilliant figure; a creature that is part monster and part genius. Dracula represents the best
According to Kostova, Bram Stoker "created Dracula as a brilliant figure; a creature that is part monster and part genius. Dracula represents the best and worst of us."