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 ...

Leo Damrosch traces the life of an imperialist turned anti-imperialist who wrote several exceptional books and one groundbreaking masterpiece. By Francine Prose Francine Prose’s new novel, “Five Weeks ...

Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. By Leo Damrosch. Yale University Press; 584 pages; $35 and £25 Few writers have the genius to create a mythic story that each generation reimagines for ...

With his tall, thin body and his long arms and legs, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) looked more like a bag of bones than a world-famous Scottish author. It was his eyes, though, which suggested ...

In her engrossing book “A Wilder Shore,” Camille Peri tells the story of R.L.S. and his American wife, Fanny Van de Grift. By Brooke Allen Brooke Allen has written about books for numerous ...

Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne was 36, 11 years older than Louis, an American, a wife, and a mother. Originally from Indiana, she had married at 17, quickly had a baby, and followed Sam Osbourne, her ...

As a portrait of a marriage, it’s bizarre. I’m talking about the dual portrait John Singer Sargent painted in 1885 of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson. Louis, whose first novel, Treasure Island, had ...

A fundraiser has been launched to save the former New York home of writer Robert Louis Stevenson. The house at Saranac Lake ...