Robert Louis Stevenson

• Birth : 13th November 1850 — Death : 3rd December 1894

• Number of Books : 2

Biography : Robert Louis Stevenson was born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write creatively and travel widely in rebelliously of his poor health. He was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most celebrated for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. he mixed in London literary circles As a young man, getting inspired by Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have delivered the idea for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. In 1890, he settled in Samoa, where he died in 1894. His books are currently ranked as the 26th most translated books in the world.