Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was ill when he was young, and had health problems all his life.
In 1879 he travelled to the United States and married Fanny Osbourne, who had two children. They came back to Scotland in 1880.
He wrote Treasure Island, 1883. He went to live in Bournemouth, in the south of England, in 1885. He wrote Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886.
In 1889, he and his family travelled by boat to the South Pacific, and visited many islands. They arrived in Samoa and decided to stay. The people of Samoa called him Tusitala, which means “the storyteller”. He died in Samoa on December 3rd, 1894.