Short answers, pulled from the story.
Robert Louis Stevenson was born on the 13th of November 1850 at 8 Howard Place in Edinburgh. He entered a world of lighthouse engineers and Presbyterian ministers with a genetic predisposition to respiratory failure that plagued him from infancy.
Robert Louis Stevenson married Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne in May 1880. She was 40 and he was 29 when they wed after he traveled to San Francisco to join her following a period of illness in Monterey.
Robert Louis Stevenson settled in the Samoan islands in December 1889 and purchased land at Vailima in January 1890. He built the islands' first two-storey house there and took the native name Tusitala, meaning Teller of Tales.
Robert Louis Stevenson died on the 3rd of December 1894 at the age of 44 after collapsing while talking to his wife. He likely died from a brain haemorrhage, though research published in 2000 suggests he might have suffered from hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia.
Robert Louis Stevenson is buried on Mount Vaea in Samoa on land donated by British Acting Vice Consul Thomas Trood. His tomb features an epitaph from his poem Requiem on the eastern side and the biblical passage of Ruth 1:16, 17 on the western side.
Robert Louis Stevenson was excluded from literary anthologies in the 20th century because he was relegated to children's literature and horror genres by figures such as Virginia Woolf. His exclusion reached its nadir in the 1973 Oxford Anthology of English Literature where he was entirely unmentioned and he was excluded from The Norton Anthology of English Literature from 1968 to 2000.