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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 was the only son of Thomas Stevenson and Margaret Isabella Balfour.12
His father, Thomas Stevenson, was a prosperous civil engineer who was part of a prominent family of lighthouse engineers.312