Stevens, Robert Louis, 1925-2003

Robert Louis Stevens was born 11 July 1925. The son of Robert Alexander Stephens and Dorothy Sloan Stevens of Asheville, N.C., he matriculated at the University of North Carolina before being inducted into the United States Navy in February 1944. During World War II, Stevens served as a radarman third class aboard the U.S.S. Doyle C. Barnes, a destroyer escort that saw duty in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina in 1949, Stevens went on to a career in publishing and advertising in New York, N.Y., while maintaining an avocation as an author of short stories and plays. He retired to Saint Augustine, Fla., and died 19 July 2003.

From the guide to the Robert Louis Stevens Letters and Photographs, 1944-1946, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

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