It's fitting that the promising debut from a descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson concerns a sunken treasure--in this case, a billion dollars in gold in the decaying hull of a cruiser torpedoed in ...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...

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As far as writers go, Scotland-born Robert Louis Stevenson has had more staying power than most. The author and poet, who once lived in the northern part of the Napa Valley, penned classics such as ...

If biographies seldom seem as deeply satisfying as fiction, as intense and intimate, it is because biographers cannot actually enter a character’s mind and reveal what no one but the character knows, ...

Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish author of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Treasure Island,” among others, is the latest writer to be granted digital immortality. In an effort ...

Stevenson was one of the happy few: he knew his life's business from childlhood. He was to write books. Happier still, and one of even a smaller minority, he early discovered that authorship is an art ...

During my misspent youth in London writing a novel that was later hailed by critics as "unreadable," I lived near Robert Louis Stevenson's house. Being a Stevenson fan, I would go out of my way every ...