Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist born in 1850 in Edinburgh. He traveled widely due to poor health and eventually settled in Samoa, where he wrote books set in the South Seas region. Some of his most famous works include Treasure Island, a tale of pirate adventure written for children, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a horror story about a doctor with a dual personality. Stevenson lived happily in Samoa until his death in 1894, and is buried there.