Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Robert Lewis (later changed to "Louis") Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 13, 1850. He attended the University of Edinburgh intending to become a civil engineer like his father, but ill health curtailed his studies and prompted him to travel to warmer climates. This inspired Stevenson to write stories, novels and essays about his travels. While in France he met American artist Fanny Osbourne. The two fell in love, and in 1879 Stevenson traveled to California, where he and Fanny reunited and married after her divorce was granted. In subsequent years the Stevensons traveled to the South Pacific and settled in Samoa, where Robert died on December 3, 1894. In the meantime he wrote numerous novels, poems, and articles, among the best known of which are "The Silverado Squatters," and especially "Treasure Island."
From the description of Stevenson's "Amateur Emigrant" corrected galleys, 1880. (California State Library). WorldCat record id: 648024611
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