Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish · 1850–1894
Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer best known for adventure novels and gothic fiction. His major works include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a novella whose central conceit of a respectable man harbouring a depraved alter ego became one of the most enduring metaphors in modern culture. Chronically ill for much of his life, Stevenson spent his final years in Samoa, where he died at 44.