A Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson (he would later change the Lewis to Louis) was born in Edinburgh on 13 November 1850. His father called Thomas belonged to a family of engineers who had built many of the deep-sea lighthouses around Scotland. His mother was called Margret Isabella Balfour came from a family of church ministers and lawyers. In 1857 the family moved to 17 Heriot Row, a solid respectable house in Edinburgh. At seventeen he enrolled at …

…burial: as he had wished, he was buried at the top of Mount Vaea above his home on Samoa. Appropriately it was his own short poem, 'Requiem', that was written on his tomb. At the end of his writing career he has written everything except a traditional Victorian novel: plays, poems, essays, literary criticism, literary theory, biography, travelogue, reportage, romances, boys' adventure stories, fantasies, fables, and short stories. In 1914 his wife Fanny Stevenson also died.