Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) wrote the world’s most enduring story of adventure at sea, Treasure Island. Despite ill health, Stevenson led an exciting life, mirrored in a prodigious body of work that includes poetry, essays, and novels such as New Arabian Nights, In the South Seas, Kidnapped, and his study of good versus evil, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1880 he married American artist Fanny Osbourne. They called the island of Samoa home until Stevenson died of a stroke, Fanny by his side.