Biography

===Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13,1850 and died on December 3, 1894. He was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. He was born Edinburgh Scotland. His dad was Thomas Stevenson, he was born 1818 and died 1887. He was a lighthouse engineer. His wife named Margret died in 1897. In November 1867, Robert entered the university of Edinburgh to study engineering. But Robert didn't take much interest in the family business, based on engineering and took more interest in poetry and writing.===

==="Say not of me weakly I declined, The harbours of that my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, But rather say; in the afternoon of time a Strenvous family dusted from its hands, The sand of granite, and beholding for along the sounding coast its pyramids and tall memorials catch the dying sun, smiled well content, and to this childish task around the fire addressed its evening hours"a poem by Robert Louis Steveson. He married Fanny Vandigrift Osbourn in 1840. They had 3 children, Isobel, the eldest, Loyd, and Hervey (who died in 1875). Robert Louis Stevenson died of stroke at the age of 44, fairly young considered to us.===