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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, FROM SCOTLAND TO THE SOUTH SEAS

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20060122
Author:Richard Eder

His great-grandfather, grandfather, and father, crags all of them, built great lighthouses girdling Scotland's stormy and treacherous coast. Of himself, the sickly, stick-thin Robert Louis Stevenson (109 pounds) wrote: "But the marrow of the family was worked out and he declined into the man of letters."

Fiery dedication and scattery self-doubt, white-hot bursts of industry and a distracted drifting: This is part of the divided self that Claire Harman locates and titles in "Myself and the Other Fellow." Her knowledgeable, vastly detailed biography of a will-o'- the-wisp subject can suggest a ...

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