The Master of Ballantrae

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Scotland on November 13, is a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and writer specializing in travel literature. Stevenson was admired by many writers, such as Jorge Luis Borges. Robert Lewis studied engineering, his father's profession, at the University of Edinburgh, but was not interested in the subject. In 1871, he changed his studies to law. But he knew he also wanted to be a writer. After university, Robert Louis visited France, Belgium and the United States and wrote about these trips. Stevenson became a full-time writer. Most of his early writings were short stories and travel books. He became famous when he wrote Treasure Island, his first long work of fiction. Other famous books were Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886).