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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (November 13 1850–December 3 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, and a representative of neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, and J. M. Barrie. Stevenson was born Robert Lewis... full article at wikipedia

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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
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