Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson 13 November 1850 3 December 1894 was a Scottish novelist poet essayist and travel writer His bestknown books include Treasure Island Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde A literary celebrity during his lifetime Stevenson now ranks among the 30 most translated authors in the world just below Charles Dickens He has been greatly admired by many authors including Jorge Luis Borges Ernest Hemingway Rudyard Kipling Marcel Schwob 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