About the AuthorTreasure Island was written by the author Robert Louis Stevenson. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 13, 1850. He wrote many books spanning many genres, he wrote: essays, travel writing, short stories, novels and romances, as well as poetry, plays and biography. He even composed some music. For a long time he was not considered to be in the Western canon due to his high popularity and magnitude of his writings but recently critics have placed him in the Western canon. He died on December 3, 1894 at the age of 44 due to an an apparent cerebral hemorrhage.
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