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: : Louis: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : Ivan R. Dee, Publisher (www.ivanrdee.com) has published a new book this spring that may be of interest to your organization and the patrons of your website, called Louis: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Philip Callow. : A sickly child, Robert Louis Stevenson became in turn a bohemian dandy, a literary gypsy traipsing through the mountains of France with a donkey, and at twenty-eight the lover of an American woman ten years his senior, the fabulous Fanny. He escaped his Scottish town, his family, his friends who had mapped out a literary career for him in London, and instead went chaotically across the Atlantic and overland of California in poverty and despair to reach this beloved, whereupon he escaped into marriage and committed himself to being a nomad. He sailed the Pacific and dreamed of being an explorer; his restlessness was Victorian. With the power of a novelist and the grace of a poet (of which he is both), Philip Callow captures this great writer and his many contradictions. He was a born exile longing for a home; a northerner who thrived on tropic sunshine; a near atheist who organized Sunday services for his Samoan workers. He has been called Scotland’s finest writer of English prose, a more economical Walter Scott. As an essayist he equaled Hazlitt. In emotional crises he wept openly, to the embarrment of this wife. “His feelings are always his reasons,” said Henry James, and caught in a sentence the secret of Stevenson’s popularity as one of the last of the clic storytellers. With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. : Novelist, poet, and biographer, Philip Callow has also written biographies of Chekhov, Cézanne, Walt Whitman, Van Gogh, and D.H. Lawrence, all published to critical acclaim by Ivan R. Dee. Mr. Callow lives and writes in England. : Would it be possible to link Louis’s website (http://www.ivanrdee.com/Callow.Louis.html) to your website for the benefit of your website’s visitors? Please send all responses to our publicist, June Sawyers, at june@ivanrdee.com. : Thank you. : : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : 352 pages / Illustrated : $27.50 cloth / ISBN 1-56663-343-5

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