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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson's famous works include the adventure novel Treasure Island (1881).
Robert Louis Stevenson died suddenly on December 3, 1894, at his home in Vailima, Samoa. While he had suffered from tuberculosis for much of his life, his death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage. At the time of his passing, he was working on his unfinished masterpiece, Weir of Hermiston.12