Robert Louis Stevenson
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born
November 13, 1850
died
December 13, 1901
gender
male
place of birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry
about this author
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.
Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.
On December 3rd, 1894, he died of an apparent cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 44.
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
— Robert Louis Stevenson
— Robert Louis Stevenson
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
— Robert Louis Stevenson
— Robert Louis Stevenson
"You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us."
— Robert Louis Stevenson
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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