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Robert Louis Stevenson
AuthorBooks · Second hand1850-1894
Nineteenth-century Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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Birth
1850
Death
1894
First book
1878
Years writing
148
He began writing Treasure Island to amuse his stepson Lloyd Osbourne during a Scottish holiday.
He suffered from tuberculosis his whole life and travelled in search of healthy climates through Europe, the United States and the Pacific.
He spent his last years on the island of Upolu in Samoa, where the locals called him Tusitala, the 'teller of tales'.
His Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written, according to his wife Fanny, in only a few days.
He died at 44 of a cerebral haemorrhage and was buried at the top of Mount Vaea, Samoa.