Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, publicist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, The Kidnapped, The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kindergarten of Poems. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson is currently among the 26 most translated authors in the world. Many other writers admired his works, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barry and G.K. Chesterton, who said of him that he “seemed to pick the right word at the tip of a pen, like a man playing spilikins.”