Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850 into a family of lighthouse engineers. He gave up engineering and then law, and lived all his life with a lung disease that drove him towards warm climates. He settled in Samoa, where the inhabitants called him the teller of tales. He died there in 1894, aged forty-four, and was buried near the summit of Mount Vaea, his coffin carried by Samoans along a path cut for the occasion.

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• NovelStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · 1886LiteraturePublic domain