The Body Snatcher – Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, into a family of serious Christians and famous engineers. His grandfather built lighthouses and this became a family tradition. Although Stevenson went to university to study engineering, when this was unsuccessful, he changed to medicine and then law. However, he decided early in life to become a writer. He wrote some novels when he was in his twenties that made him immediately successful, including ‘Treasure Island’, with the well-known pirate Long John Silver, as well as the famous short story, ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’