Robert Louis Stevenson writer and poet, author of the world-famous adventure novels and novellas, the largest representative of the English neo-romanticism
Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, in a family of engineers, lighthouse. Secondary education at Edinburgh Academy, university - the University of Edinburgh, where he first studied to be an engineer, received in 1871 for his work "A new kind of flashing light for lighthouses" the silver medal in the contest Scottish Academy, but then moved to the Faculty of Law, graduating in 1875.Stevenson died December 3, 1894 from a stroke on the island of Upolu in Samoa.