Born in Scotland, this author spent time in the United States & the South Seas
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Great Scots: Robert Louis Stevenson - Turnbull Clan Association  His grandfather, Lewis Balfour, was a minister in the Church of Scotland. ... He also spent time with Professor Fleeming Jenkin with whom he ... and left Europe without informing his parents and journeyed to the United States. ... While in the Napa Valley Stevenson met Charles Warren Stoddard, author of South Sea Idylls...
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Robert Louis Stevenson's America | Humanities  When Robert Louis Stevenson left his native Scotland for the United States in 1879, he had yet to gain renown as the author of such ... again traveling across the country to embark on a tour of the South Seas. .... Stevenson spent time with Honolulu's society matrons, sometimes to the detriment of his busy work schedule.
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Robert Louis Stevenson - Wikipedia  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850  3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. ... Citizenship, United Kingdom ... Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November .... and author of South Sea Idylls, who urged Stevenson to travel to the South...
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Robert Louis Stevenson - Author - Biography.com  Sep 1, 2016 ... Born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson ... The stories marked the United Kingdom's emergence into the realm of the ... While in this bedridden state, he wrote some of his most popular fiction, ... Toward the end of his life, Stevenson's South Seas writing included more of...
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Robert Louis Stevenson | British author | Britannica.com  Oct 29, 2015 ... Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, best known for his ... Stevenson (born November 13, 1850, Edinburgh, Scotlanddied December 3, .... of health, Stevenson set out for America with his wife, mother, and stepson. ... In fact, he was to spend the rest of his life in the South Seas.
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So, what have the Scots ever done for us? Just 101 of the ...  Jan 14, 2012 ... Scotland may not have progressed past the first round in the 1978 World ... the Sea Wolf in the Napoleonic Wars, left the UK in official disgrace. ... After only one year, he was named the best doctor ever by readers of ..... is credited to Scot James Watt, who first applied it to a steam engine on .... Uncle Sam.
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The ... - Amazon.com  Editorial Reviews. Review. Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the ... of a Tour to the Hebrides [Samuel Johnson, James Boswell] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Two of the eighteenth century's preeminent writers spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland together.
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Robert Louis Stevenson | British author | Britannica.com  Oct 29, 2015 ... born. November 13, 1850. Edinburgh, Scotland. died. December 3, 1894 ... 1894, Vailima, Samoa) Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction...
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C.S. Lewis - Author - Biography.com  Sep 1, 2016 ... Author Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on ... As a toddler, Clive declared that his name was Jack, which is what he was called...
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John Jakes - Wikipedia  The Kent Family Chronicles  North and South trilogy. John William Jakes (born March 31, 1932) is an American writer, best known for American historical fiction. He has used the pen name Jay Scotland. Contents. [hide]. 1 Early life and education; 2 Writing career; 3 Personal; 4 Works. 4.1 Mainstream novels ... Service (2000); Charleston (2002); Savannah or a Gift for Mr. Lincoln (2004)...
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A dateline in the sand on Stevenson's treasured island - Samoa  Dec 28, 2011 ... While living in Samoa, the 19th-century Scottish novelist ... Stevenson's house, situated on a hillside above Apia, the Samoan ... He and his American wife, Fanny, bought 300 jungle-smothered acres and built a two-storey timber home. ... public highway; it became known as the Road of the Loving Heart.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) | The University of Edinburgh  Jul 30, 2015 ... Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer who wrote much the loved classics ... Born in Edinburgh on November 13, 1850 to a family of leading lighthouse ... Islands, Gilbert Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand and the Samoan Islands. ... Before his death in 1894 he wrote The Beach of Falesa, Catriona, The...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson (Everyman's Library): James Boswell ...  Editorial Reviews. About the Author. James Boswell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1740. He attended the University of Glasgow and is now considered one...
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Hugh Miller - University of Glasgow  One of Scotland's most famous geological writers Hugh Miller was born in Cromarty, Invernesshire in 1802. At the age of five, his father, a sea-captain, died...
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Pat's Bio - Pat Conroy Literary Center  Jun 2, 2016 ... Pat Conroy, born in Atlanta in 1945, was the first of seven children of a young ... attended The Citadel, a military college in Charleston, South Carolina. ... his alma mater, and in 1969 he took a job teaching underprivileged children in ... Conroy wrote about his experiences that year in a memoir, The Water is...
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Books of The Times - The Caribbean as Lead Character in a ...  Nov 2, 1989 ... LEAD: Caribbean By James A. Michener 673 pages. ... in ''Tales of the South Pacific,'' his magical first novel: island-hopping, ... It's a formula he has perfected in novels set in Spain, Israel, South Africa, Texas, Poland, Alaska and elsewhere. ... Herman Wouk did so for World War II in ''The Winds of War'' and...
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James K. Polk: Life Before the PresidencyMiller Center  James K. Polk's Scots-Irish ancestors settled in the United States in the ... stern mother, Jane Knox Polk, who believed in raising her children according to the strict ... at a Presbyterian school outside of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Polk was quite ... It was a wise move for the young man, who by then had decided to use the law...
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William Robertson (1721-1793). Critical Introduction by William ...  [William Robertson, historian of Scotland, America, and Charles V., was born on 19th ... The publication of his first work, The History of Scotland, brought him at once ... enjoyed the intimate friendship of David Hume, Adam Smith, John Home,...
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Robert Louis Stevenson - Author - Biography.com  Sep 1, 2016 ... Author (18501894) ... Born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson traveled ... He died in Samoa in 1894.
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Donald Trump's mother WAS an immigrant chasing the American...  May 21, 2016 ... MailOnline US - news, sport, celebrity, science and health stories ... Donald Trump's mother Mary Anne ne Macleod did not travel to ... from the desolate Scottish Isle of Lewis, with just $50 to her name, to pursue work as a 'domestic'. ..... Island, Queens (pictured as it is today) according to the 1940 censu.
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StephenKing.com - About the Author  Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald ... Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to ... Stephen began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy,...