Lloyd Osbourne

Born in San Francisco in 1868, Lloyd Osbourne was the son of Fanny Osbourne and later became the stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson. He traveled widely with Stevenson and his family, including long stays in the South Pacific, and those years placed him close to one of the great storytellers of the age.

Osbourne also built a writing career of his own. He collaborated with Stevenson on several works and published fiction, travel writing, and reminiscences that drew on the unusual places and people he had known. Readers interested in literary history often encounter him both as a writer in his own right and as an important figure in Stevenson's circle.

He died in 1947. Today, he remains especially interesting for the way his life connected American writing, Pacific travel, and the late-Victorian adventure tradition.