PERSON@1 -LRB- née PERSON@2 ; NUMBER@1 August NUMBER@2 -- NUMBER@3 February NUMBER@4 -RRB- was a MISC@1 novelist , short story writer , dramatist , essayist , biographer , and travel writer , best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein : or , The Modern Prometheus -LRB- NUMBER@5 -RRB- .

PERSON@3 -LRB- August NUMBER@1 , NUMBER@2 -- February NUMBER@3 , NUMBER@4 -RRB- was an author best known for writing the novel Frankenstein .
