Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (1850-1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon. Stevenson was a celebrity in his own time, but with the rise of modern literature after World War I, he was seen for much of the 20th century as a writer of the second class, relegated to children's literature and horror genres. His works include: An Inland Voyage (1878), Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882), New Arabian Nights (1882), Kidnapped (1886), The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887), Memories and Portraits (1887), Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (1887), The Black Arrow (1888), and Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale (1889).

羅伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森（Robert Louis Stevenson，1850－1894），蘇格蘭小說傢、詩人與旅遊作傢，也是英國文學新浪漫主義的代錶之一，著有《金銀島》《化身博士》等小說。他早期的遊曆為其創作積纍瞭資源。20世紀晚期，史蒂文森被逐漸評價成一位擁有過人洞察力的藝術傢、文學理論傢、隨筆作傢與社會評論傢，作品被收入西方經典中，並被列為19世紀最偉大的作傢之一。