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1850–1894
A restless storyteller with a taste for adventure, he turned illness, travel, and sharp imagination into some of the most enduring tales in English literature. Best known for Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, he also wrote poetry, essays, and vivid travel books.

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Born in Edinburgh in 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer. He first studied engineering and then law, but writing quickly became his real calling. His childhood was marked by frequent illness, and that sense of fragility seems to have sharpened both his love of escape and his gift for creating unforgettable worlds.
Stevenson wrote across many forms, but he is especially remembered for Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses. His work could be exciting and playful on one page, then dark, eerie, or deeply thoughtful on the next, which helps explain why he has remained popular with both younger readers and adults.
Later in life, he traveled widely in search of better health and eventually settled in Samoa with his wife, Fanny. He died there in 1894, at just 44, after building a body of work far larger and more varied than his short life might suggest.