Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet who lived as adventurously as any of his characters. Plagued by chronic lung disease from childhood, he traveled restlessly in search of health—from the Highlands of Scotland to the mountains of France, from the sanatoriums of Switzerland to the beaches of Samoa, where he spent his final years and was buried on a mountaintop by the islanders who called him Tusitala, the Teller of Tales. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Treasure Island.