Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a ........................... novelist, poet, and travel writer born on
November .................................... in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the only son of Thomas
Stevenson, a successful .......................engineer, and Margaret Balfour Stevenson.
Stevenson was a frail child and suBered from various .......................... throughout his life,
including tuberculosis. Despite his poor health, Stevenson was an excellent student and
showed a talent for ........................ at a young age.
He studied engineering at the University of Edinburgh but ................................ to pursue a
writing career. He started writing poetry, but it was his adventure novels that made him
..................... His first success was the novel .............................," published in 1883,
which was an instant hit and is still popular today. The novel is a classic adventure story
about pirates, treasure maps, and ..................... Stevenson continued to write and
.......................... and essays, including "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
(1886), which is a classic exploration of ................. of human nature. He also wrote several
travel books based on his adventures, including "The Silverado Squatters" (1883) and "In
the South Seas" (1896).
In ......................., Stevenson married Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, an American divorcee,
and the couple ............................................, eventually settling in Samoa in 1890.
Stevenson became ill with tuberculosis and died on December 3, 1894, at the age of
................ He is buried on Mount Vaea, near Apia, ............. Robert Louis Stevenson was a
..................... writer and his works have had a...................... on literature. He is
remembered for his ..................... storytelling, .........................., and memorable
........................ Today, he is considered one of Scotland's ................................. writers
and his works are widely read and admired.