name: Robert Louis Stevenson
birth_date: 1850-11-13 00:00:00
death_date: 1894-12-03 00:00:00
genres: Poetry, Fiction, Horror
influences: John Hill Burton, Robert Fergusson, James Hogg, Guy de Maupassant, John Galt, Daniel Defoe, J.M.Barrie, J.M.Barr, R.M. Ballantyne, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Alison Cunningham, Charles Baudelaire, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walter Scott
avg_rating: 3.84
ratings_count: 1554451
about: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon. ...more