The Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child’s Garden of Verses is on view through August 30th at Selby Gardens’ Historic Spanish ...

I am sorry to say I haven’t read anything by Robert Louis Stevenson (RLS to scholars, Louis to his friends), but I’ve come close by reading Brian Doyle’s The Adventures of John Carson in Several ...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...

The major novels of Robert Louis Stevenson contain few female characters—in “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” the sole adult feminine presence is a house maid—but there is no doubt about the ...

Come hear a captivating lecture about Robert Louis Stevenson up at the U’s Alumni House. The University of Utah College of Humanities is presenting “Imperial Ears: Robert Louis Stevenson in Oceana.” ...

In the latter part of 1879, an unknown young writer lived in a small Oceanside village called Monterey. He would be there only a short period, but the impact of that village would stay with him the ...

A DOZEN years ago, more or less, and somewhere in that zone of forest landscape which lies near to the heart of Nature and of Paris, and is dear to artists, a company of pilgrims were come together in ...

If biographies seldom seem as deeply satisfying as fiction, as intense and intimate, it is because biographers cannot actually enter a character’s mind and reveal what no one but the character knows, ...

A Russian Hill mansion in San Francisco originally commissioned by the widow of famed author Robert Louis Stevenson is for sale for $13.8 million. Click here if viewing from a mobile device. Stevenson ...

“Stevenson had from the beginning an idea of literary composition as a fine art.” A profile of the author of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other classics. Stevenson was one of the happy ...

Within the ever-expanding literature produced at the intersection of art and the health humanities, The Medicine of Art offers a thoughtful reframing of familiar people and places ...

Good morning. Robert Louis Stevenson’s short time in Bournemouth, where he developed an epistolary friendship with Henry James, was one of the most productive periods of his life. Andrew O’Hagan tells ...