As a child, according to Claire Harmon, Robert Louis Stevenson “liked to be attended to as much as possible, especially by women.” Harmon herself attends to him very well in this new biography, ...

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, ...

If Robert Louis Stevenson was unhappy with the direction one of his books was headed, the impassioned Scotsman had a habit of tossing it into the nearest fire. This is precisely what happened with the ...

Linda Dryden received £34,000 from The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland to create the RLS website, which she administers. She is also co-founder of RLS Day in Edinburgh. Ask most people ...

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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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of “Treasure Island” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” some of the most thrilling stories in literary history. But in a newly discovered essay, he ...