The Merry Men Other Stories Author:Robert Louis Stevenson The Merry Men and Other Stories (1887) is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Che... more »sterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins".« less