Robert Louis Stevenson (1850тАУ1894) was a Scottish novelist, travel writer, poet, and childrenтАЩs author. Plagued by poor health his entire life, he was nevertheless an amazingly prolific writer, and created some of the most influential and entertaining fiction of the nineteenth century, including Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (1868тАУ1947) was an American author of ten books. He is best remembered for the three novels he cowrote with his famed stepfather, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Wrong Box, The Ebb-Tide, and The Wrecker.