biography
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Stevenson, Robert Louis (Balfour)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1850–94)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh, became a lawyer (1875), then turned to writing travel sketches, essays, and short stories for magazines. The romantic adventure story Treasure Island (1883) brought him fame, and entered him on a course of romantic fiction which included Kidnapped (1886), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), The Master of Ballantrae (1889), and the unfinished Weir of Hermiston (1896), considered his masterpiece. In 1888 he settled for health reasons at Vailima, Samoa. |
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