Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson is, to me, one of literature's great proofs that a short life can be impossibly full. In barely forty-four years, often in poor health and constantly travelling, he produced both the pure adventure of Treasure Island and the unsettling moral split of Jekyll and Hyde. What moves me is the range: he could thrill a child and disturb an adult with equal mastery. A Child's Garden of Verses still lands harder on grown readers than it has any right to. I stand a little straighter near his shelf. A hundred and fifty years on, the storytelling has not aged a day.

Name (English)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・ルイス・スティーヴンソン

Reading

ろばーと・るいす・すてぃーゔんそん

Born

November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

Origin

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Occupation

poet / essayist / novelist / short story writer / children's writer

University

University of Edinburgh

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3

Tags

• poet
• essayist
• novelist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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