Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Living place: Edinburgh

Birthday: 13-11-1850

Global rank: #21249

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Who is Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson?
The Scottish author of the classic adventure novel Treasure Island, and the psychological drama The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His other popular and widely translated works include The Garden of the Children of Sentence and Abduction.
His famous book, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, explores the complexity and duality of human nature.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He was a late reader, starting at about seven or eight years old, but he wrote relentlessly like a child, even to his father's boredom. He agreed to study law at the University of Edinburgh to appease his father, but he continued to pursue a literary career in his young adulthood.

Family life info

He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to Thomas Stevenson and Margaret Isabella Balfour. He later married Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne and raised his two children.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson?
Vladimir Nabokov claims to have read the Stevenson stories as a child.

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When was Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson born?
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 13-11-1850, death year is , at the age of 174.
Where is Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, of Scotland. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Scorpius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dog. Robert Louis Stevenson's global rank is 21249 and whose rank is 74 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1850 and 13-11

Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson (13-11) in history

  • Day 13-11 year 1775: U.S. forces, under the command of Gen. Richard Montgomery, captured Montreal during the American Revolution.
  • Day 13-11 year 1927: The world's first long, mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, opened between New York and New Jersey.
  • Day 13-11 year 1940: Walt Disney's Fantasia debuted.
  • Day 13-11 year 1942: The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.
  • Day 13-11 year 1946: Vincent Schaefer produced artificial snow from a natural cloud for the first time at Mount Greylock in Massachusetts.
  • Day 13-11 year 1956: The Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on buses.
  • Day 13-11 year 1982: The Vietnam War Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated in Washington, DC.
  • Day 13-11 year 2001: The Taliban abandoned Afghanistan's capital of Kabul when the Northern Alliance entered the city.
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