where was the former mentioned author born?
8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland
Robert Louis Stevenson
8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland
what is the coral island? It is a novel. who is the author of this novel? It is written by a Scottish author. what is the historical context behind it? It began a trend in boys' fiction by using boys as the main characters. what genre and style did it follow? Fiction what was its influence? It influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, William Golding's  Lord of the Flies etc
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Robert Louis Stevenson [SEP] Childhood and youth
Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife Margaret Isabella (born Balfour, 1829–1897). He was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. At about age 18, he changed the spelling of "Lewis" to "Louis", and he dropped "Balfour" in 1873. Lighthouse design was the family's profession; Thomas's father (Robert's grandfather) was civil engineer Robert Stevenson, and Thomas's brothers (Robert's uncles) Alan and David were in the same field. Thomas's maternal grandfather Thomas Smith had been in the same profession. However, Robert's mother's family were gentry, tracing their lineage back to Alexander Balfour who had held the lands of Inchyra in Fife in the fifteenth century.