Robert was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland and began writing when he was a boy. He finished his first book when he was sixteen.
He went to many different countries in his life. He was often dangerously ill and he wanted to find a place with warm weather where he could live and do his writing. In 1888,he went by ship to the pacific island of samoa, with his wife, mother and son. The samoans called him ‘Tusitala’ - ‘the story-teller’.
He wrote many different books and stories. Treasure Island (1883) is his most famous book but Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) is also very well-knows. Stevenson died in 1894 on samoa.