Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Kidnapped” appeared in 1886, the same year as “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and just three years after “Treasure Island.” According to the ...

Author Robert Louis Stevenson came from a wealthy Scottish family. Bettmann Archive. Van de Grift, meanwhile, hailed from a mining family in Indiana and, ...

The "Robert Louis Stevenson House" at 2323 Hyde St. lists for $13.8 million Expand to read more Open Homes Photography The Russian Hill house was built more than 100 years ago for the widow of ...

W hen Fanny met Louis in 1876, he was not yet Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child’s Garden of Verses.

A brief, long-lost essay by “Treasure Island” author Robert Louis Stevenson will be published on Friday, the Associated Press reports. The essay will appear in the Strand magazine, a mystery ...

Robert Louis Stevenson Loved Her. Many of His Friends Did Not. In her engrossing book “A Wilder Shore,” Camille Peri tells the story of R.L.S. and his American wife, Fanny Van de Grift.

Who is Robert Louis Stevenson? Stevenson, who lived from 1850-1894, was a Scottish-born author whose book about buccaneers and a hidden treasure would define pop culture depictions of pirates in ...

The Stevenson family in Samoa, ca. 1891. Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny, are seated at back. Photo: J. Davis/National Portrait Gallery, London ...