Stevenson was one of the happy few: he knew his life's business from childlhood. He was to write books. Happier still, and one of even a smaller minority, he early discovered that authorship is an art ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 was sickly, often coughing blood. It was thought he would die young and in fact he did, a century ago, at age 44. But not before hiking and canoeing and sailing over half the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...