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Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (April 7 1868 – 1947) was an American author and the step-son of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
. Osbourne was born in San Francisco
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
 to his mother Fanny Osbourne (née Vandegrift)
Fanny Vandegrift

Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne Stevenson was the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson and mother of Isobel and Lloyd Osbourne....
, who would marry Stevenson in 1880 when Osbourne was 12 years old. Osbourne studied engineering at the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh founded in 1582, is an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom....
. With Stevenson he went to Samoa
Samoa

Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa , is a country governing the western part of the Samoan Islands archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean....
 where in 1897 he was appointed vice consul
Vice Consul

A Vice Consul a subordinate officer, authorized to exercise consular functions in some particular part of a district controlled by a Consul ....
 to represent the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. He co-authored three books with his stepfather and provided input and ideas on others.






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Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (April 7 1868 – 1947) was an American author and the step-son of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
. Osbourne was born in San Francisco
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
 to his mother Fanny Osbourne (née Vandegrift)
Fanny Vandegrift

Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne Stevenson was the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson and mother of Isobel and Lloyd Osbourne....
, who would marry Stevenson in 1880 when Osbourne was 12 years old. Osbourne studied engineering at the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh founded in 1582, is an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom....
. With Stevenson he went to Samoa
Samoa

Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa , is a country governing the western part of the Samoan Islands archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean....
 where in 1897 he was appointed vice consul
Vice Consul

A Vice Consul a subordinate officer, authorized to exercise consular functions in some particular part of a district controlled by a Consul ....
 to represent the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. He co-authored three books with his stepfather and provided input and ideas on others. As a boy, Lloyd and his step-father painted a map of an imaginary island, and this quickly formed the inspiration for Stevenson's classic Treasure Island
Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island....
.

Osbourne married Katherine Durham in Honolulu on April 9, 1896 and divorced in 1914. Their children were Alan (b. 1897) and Louis (b. 1900). In 1916 he remarried on condition that there should be no children, and later divorced again. He spent the period 1936 in the south of France with Yvonne Payerne, forty years his junior, by whom he had another son Samuel (born in Nice, 1936) when Osbourne was 58 years old. Lloyd returned alone to the USA in 1941 when the USA entered the war. Yvonne and Samuel arrived in New York on May 22 1947, the same day that Lloyd died in California. Samuel died in 2006 in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
 unmarried and homeless.

Collaborations with Robert Louis Stevenson

  • The Wrong Box
    The Wrong Box (novel)

    The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889 in literature. The story is about the last two remaining survivors of a tontine, who also happen to be brothers....
  • The Ebb-Tide
    The Ebb-Tide

    The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and a Quartette is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. It was published the same year Stevenson died....
  • The Wrecker
    The Wrecker (novel)

    The Wrecker is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Atoll....


Other works

  • The Queen Versus Billy and other stories (South Seas)
  • Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas