Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson The world-wide recognized writer; the frontier breaker literary critic; the eternal heart navigator; and the unstoppable fiction, travel and romantic adventure writer, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, was born in the small town of Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13 in the year of 1850. Robert Louis Stevenson, son of a prosperous engineer, studied law at Edinburgh University. Since he was very young, he focused on his literary skills, taking it to the very highest …showed first 75 words of 692 total…

…showed last 75 words of 692 total…rmiston and Other Stories, Travels With a Donkey, An Inland Voyage, The Silverado Squatters. After a constantly ill life, Stevenson decided to go to the South Seas. He died there in Samoa in 1894. He left several volumes recording his south seas impressions including the novel In the South Seas (1896). He there also wrote romance that show he retained his literary power until the very end of his life. A great example of this is Catriona (1893)