<Tr> <Th> Spouse </Th> <Td> Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Relatives </Th> <Td> Thomas Stevenson (father) Margaret Isabella Balfour (mother) </Td> </Tr> <P> Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850--3 December 1894) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer . His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses . He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world . His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J.M. Barrie, and G.K. Chesterton, who said that Stevenson "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins". </P> <P> Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, UK on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Stevenson (1818--87), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife Margaret Isabella (born Balfour, 1829--97). He was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson . At about age 18, he changed the spelling of "Lewis" to "Louis", and he dropped "Balfour" in 1873 . </P>

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