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Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 - 1894

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Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1893), and the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885). Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Sidney Colvin, Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Louis Stevenson is the 168th most popular writer (down from 143rd in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 89th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Writer.

Robert Louis Stevenson is most famous for his novel, Treasure Island.

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Among writers, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 168 out of 7,302. Before him are Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Racine, Elias Canetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Novalis, and Heinrich Böll. After him are Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling, Pindar, Nicolas Flamel, André Breton, and Wisława Szymborska.

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Among people born in 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 4. Before him are Jack the Ripper, Guy de Maupassant, and Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener. After him are Karl Ferdinand Braun, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Edward Smith, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Eduard Bernstein, Hermann Ebbinghaus, and Charles Richet. Among people deceased in 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 3. Before him are Heinrich Hertz, and Alexander III of Russia. After him are Hermann von Helmholtz, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, Lajos Kossuth, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Adolphe Sax, Anton Rubinstein, Gustave Caillebotte, and Hans von Bülow.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 149 out of 8,785. Before him are Brian Josephson (1940), Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857), Nicholas Winton (1909), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), William Ramsay (1852), and J. M. W. Turner (1775). After him are Walter Scott (1771), Alan Rickman (1946), Marianne Faithfull (1946), Thomas Andrews (1873), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930), and Neville Chamberlain (1869).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Robert Louis Stevenson ranks 16. Before him are Virginia Woolf (1882), Jane Austen (1775), Lewis Carroll (1832), Emily Brontë (1818), Mary Shelley (1797), and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806). After him are Walter Scott (1771), Anna Wintour (1949), John Milton (1608), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), and Aldous Huxley (1894).

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