The author of: Strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

In November 1867 Stevenson entered Edinburgh University to study law, where he pursued his studies  until 1872. Instead of concentrating on academic work, he busied himself in learning how to write. The most significant work from his student days was "On a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses,"a scientific piece, and after that moment he decided that he want to become a writer.

When Stevenson left Scotland so abruptly he temporarily estranged his parents. They were also upset about his relationship with a married woman. Fanny Osbourne and Stevenson were married on 19 May 1880 in San Francisco.

Between 1880 and 1887, his literary output was prodigious. Writing was one of the few activities he could do when he was ill.  he wrote some of his most enduring fiction, notably Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and The Black Arrow(1888). He was also busy writing essays and collaborating on plays with W. E. Henley, the poet, essayist, and editor who championed Stevenson in London literary circles and who became the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island.