Robert Louis was born with the wrong middle names. One was Balfour which he promptly dumped. The other middle name was Lewis which he changed to Louis. He liked to be called RLS. That took care of the name problem.

He was born on November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He never liked the winter climate in Scotland and spent a good deal of his life in the warm spots of the Pacific. His wife, Fanny, was a good sport and tagged along. Although trained as both an engineer (like his father) and in the law, he preferred to write. That