Mother Marianne Cope is the patron of lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS, and the Hawaiian Islands. Her feast day is Jan. 23. LEFT: Robert Louis Stevenson in 1893, by Henry Walter Barnett ...

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 fiction ...

Robert A. Macfie Jr. (1854-1925), the manager and a principal owner of Kaua‘i’s Kilauea Sugar Co., visited fellow Scotsman and famous novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson ...

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 ...

Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish author of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Treasure Island,” among others, is the latest writer to be granted digital immortality. In an effort ...

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 ...