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A Short Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson

Author Name:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Born As:

Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson

Other Names:

Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson

Born:

13 Nov 1850

Died:

3 Dec 1894




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Writer, essayist, poet and novelist                          
Selected Works:

Treasure Island - 1883 - Originally entitled The Sea Cook but an editor changed it.
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - 1883
Prince Otto - 1885

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - 1886

Kidnapped - 1886

The Master of Ballantrae - 1889

The Wrong Box - 1889 - co-written with Lloyd Osbourne - filmed in 1966 .
The Wrecker - 1892 - co-written with Lloyd Osbourne.
Catriona - 1893 - also known as David Balfour, is a sequel to Kidnapped, telling of Balfour's further adventures.
The Ebb-Tide - 1894 - co-written with Lloyd Osbourne.
Weir of Hermiston - 1896 - unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death, considered to have promised great artistic growth.
St. Ives - 1897 - unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death, the novel was completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

Short story collections:

New Arabian Nights - 1882 
More New Arabian Nights:The Dynamiter - 1885 - co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables - 1887 
Island Nights' Entertainments - also known as South Sea Tales - 1893.                          
Mother Margaret Balfour
Father Thomas Stevenson
Wife  Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne