Robert Louis Stevenson
Portrait by Girolamo Nerli
(1860-1926)
[From The Writer’s Home Companion, 1987]
“Robert Louis Stevenson was thrashing about in his bed one night, greatly alarming his wife. She woke him up, infuriating Stevenson, who yelled, “I was dreaming a fine bogey tale!” The nightmare from which he had been unwillingly extracted was the premise for the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.“
