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Robert Louis Stevenson

Google celebrates the 160 anniversary of the birth of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish travel writer . His best-known books include Treasure Island , Kidnapped , and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde . Stevenson has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges , Ernest Hemingway , Rudyard Kipling , Marcel Schwob , Vladimir Nabokov , [1] J. M. Barrie , [2] and G.K. Chesterton , who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins . Life Childhood File:Robert Louis Stevenson daguerreotype portrait as a childring.jpg Daguerreotype portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson as a young child Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson [4] at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh , Scotland, on 13 November 1850, to Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), a leading lighthouse engineer , and his wife, the former Mar...