Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson was born on the 13th of November, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Best known as the author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson is probably one of the most widely translated and extensively read authors in the world. Though his work is often relegated to the genre of children' s literature, Stevenson was, and is, a literary giant in his own right. He wrote everything-- plays, poems, essays on literary criticism and theory, travelogues, romances, adventure stories, fantasies, fables, and short stories-- and he wrote in a manner which pulled the reader right into the world he strove hard to create. Stevenson died on the 3rd of December, 1894.