In the latter part of 1879, an unknown young writer lived in a small Oceanside village called Monterey. He would be there only a short period, but the impact of that village would stay with him the ...

In her engrossing book “A Wilder Shore,” Camille Peri tells the story of R.L.S. and his American wife, Fanny Van de Grift. By Brooke Allen Edinburgh calls to readers, its pearl-grey skies urging them ...

COMMENTARY: Robert Louis Stevenson and Princess Diana each found themselves transformed by encounters, direct or indirect, ...

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The world is so full of a number of things, I think we should all be as happy as kings.” Reading the news or following events ...

“Stevenson had from the beginning an idea of literary composition as a fine art.” A profile of the author of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other classics. Stevenson was one of the happy ...

Clearly, Stevenson (1850-1894) understood the biographic potential of his life when he wrote An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey. Callow is only the latest to map the author's route from ...