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Robert Luois Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and grew up in Edinburgh and later Colinton, Scotland.

He went to University in Edinburgh to study Engineering, but abandoend that course to become an author.

As an author he often travelled to France and spent a good deal of time there; since he was in poor health and the climate of Scotland was not good for him.

He tried settling in the United States, but after a year sailed to the south pacific where he spend several years sailing around a writing.

Ultimately he settled in Valima, Samoa where he eventually died.

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