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1 Robert Louis Stevenson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_L_St evenson

2 Life Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges,

3 Life Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie,and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins".

4 Life A bronze relief memorial to Stevenson, designed by American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1904, is mounted in the Moray Aisle of St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.

5 Life Another memorial in Edinburgh stands in West Princes Street Gardens below Edinburgh Castle; it is a simple upright stone inscribed with "RLS - A Man of Letters 1850 -1894" by sculptor Iain Hamilton Finlay in 1987.

6 A garden was designed by the Bournemouth Corporation in 1957 as a memorial to Stevenson, on the site of his Westbourne house "Skerryvore" which he lived in from 1885 to 1887. A statue of the Skerryvore lighthouse is present on the site.

7 In 1994, to mark the 100th Anniversary of Stevenson's death, the Royal Bank of Scotland issued a series of commemorative £1 notes which featured a quill pen and Stevenson's signature on the obverse, and Stevenson's face on the reverse side.

8 Alongside Stevenson's portrait are scenes from some of his books and his house in Western Samoa where he died in 1894.[62] Two million notes were issued, each with a serial number beginning "RLS". The first note to be printed was sent to Samoa in time for their centenary celebrations on 3 December 1994.

9 Stories The Ebb-Tide (1894) Catriona (1893) The Master of Ballantrae (1889) Treasure Island (1883)

10 External links http://books.google.com/books?as_brr=1&q=ina uthor%3A%22Robert+Louis+Stevenson%22&bt nG=Search+Books http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Robert+Louis+ Stevenson http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/boo k/search?author=robert+louis+stevenson&amod e=words


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