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He was born in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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When he was 17, Stevenson enrolled at Edinburgh University to study engineering. Trying to follower his family in the family business
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In 1873, he went to visit a married cousin in Suffolk England where he met Sidney Colvin.
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Stevenson heath was not so good and they sent him the Menton, French Rivera
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He lost interest in the family business and went to law school
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He Emerged from law school and became a writer, after touring France.
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When Stevenson met the love of his life but she was married. But she was in the middle of divorcing her husband.
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Stevenson published his first work in 1878, An Inland Voyage. It was about his trip from Antwerp to north France, which he made in a canoe.
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since 1878, Stevenson and Osbourne started seeing each other while she stayed in France.In 1880 is when they finally got married
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"New Arabian Nights" was his first short story.
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The idea of this novel Treasure Island was inspired by the map that he had drawn for his stepson.
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After his marriage, he took his wife to his abandoned silver mine Napa Valley, California where he created The Silverado Squatters.
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He published Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1886 and it became an instant hit.
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Stevenson's father passed away this year.
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He died in Apia, Samoa
