As a child, according to author Claire Harmon, Robert Louis Stevenson ... hard choices every good biographer must to devise a coherent narrative portrait. This is Stevenson as Harmon sees ...

The subtitle of the American edition of Claire Harman's excellent new biography of Robert Louis Stevenson ... of Stevenson's letters, which appeared a decade ago. Both will play their part ...

Stevenson had visited Australia himself, falling ill at the Union Club in Sydney in August 1890. The visit is one of just a few events during his life that Claire Harman's informative, enjoyable ...