I wrote a poem similar to Robert Louis Stevenson’s “My Shadow” about my cancer diagnosis. I look inside and say I’m brave and try to banish dread. I may feel weak, I may be slow, but still I’m not yet ...

It's fitting that the promising debut from a descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson concerns a sunken treasure--in this case, a billion dollars in gold in the decaying hull of a cruiser torpedoed in ...

Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. By Leo Damrosch. Yale University Press; 584 pages; $35 and £25 Few writers have the genius to create a mythic story that each generation reimagines for ...

Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish author of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Treasure Island,” among others, is the latest writer to be granted digital immortality. In an effort ...