Robert Louis Stevenson
(born November 13, 1850, Edin burgh, Scotland—died December 3, 1894, Vailima, Samoa) was a Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, best known for his novels Treasure Island (1881), Kid napped (1886), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and The Master of Ballantrae (1889)