Authors starting with S

- Robert Louis Stevenson (November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894) -

Ancestry: Edinburgh, Scotland

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins".