Robert Louis Stevenson

Glenda Norquay is Professor Emerita of Scottish Literature at Liverpool John Moores University. Her books on Stevenson include Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s (2020).

Glenda Norquay narrates Stevenson’s all-too-brief and eventful life with grace and verve and a fine eye for the telling detail. This is a learned book, but Norquay wears her learning lightly. Not only does she reveal Stevenson himself in all his multi-faceted complexity, she vividly conjures up the many disparate worlds he moved through, from Scotland to the South Seas. - Stephen Arata, Professor of English, University of VirginiaNorquay's slender yet capacious work restores complexity to a writer too often simplified, revealing Stevenson as both a craftsman of stories and a thinker preoccupied with the nature of self and art. - Booklist