Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, 1850. His father was Thomas Stevenson, a joint-engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses. All of his life he suffered from the disease called tuberculosis. In the year of 1867 he entered Edinburgh University to study engineering, but in 1875 he changed to law. during these years he first worked were published in the The Edinburgh University Magazine (1871) and The Portfolio (1873). Instead of practicing law, Stevenson devoted himself to writing travel sketches, essays, and short stories for magazines. In 1879 Stevenson moved to California with a woman called Fanny Osbourne, he met her in France. They got married in 1880, and after a short stay at Calistoga, which was recorded in one of his books he wrote in 1883, called The Silverado Squatters, then they returned to Scotland, and then moved often in search of better climates. Stevenson became famous with the adventure story Treasure Island which he published in 1883. He also contributed to various periodicals, including The Cornhill Magazine and Longman's Magazine, where his best-known article" A Humble Remonstrance" was published in 1884, It was a reply to Henry James's ' The Art of Fiction' and started a lifelong friendship between the two authors. Stevenson died on December 3, 1894, in Vailima, Samoa. His last work, Weir Of Hermiston (1896), was left unfinished.