Robert Louis Stevenson
Writer
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Conan Doyle'>Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."
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Alias (AKA) | Stevenson Robert Lewis Balfour (full name) |
Birth date | November 13, 1850 |
Birth name | Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson |
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Date of death | December 03, 1894 |
Place of death | Samoa , Samoan Islands , Vailima Samoa |
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