Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (born August 30, 1797 —died February 1, 1851), was an English Romantic novelist best known as the author of Frankenstein. She wrote several other lesser-known novels including Valperga (1823), The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830), Lodore (1835), Falkner (1837), and The Last Man (1826).