Lloyd Osbourne
Samuel Lloyd Osbourne | |
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Born | San Francisco, California, US | 7 April 1868
Died | 22 May 1947 Glendale, California, US | (aged 79)
Occupation | Novelist |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
Notable works | The Wrong Box, The Ebb-Tide, The Wrecker |
Spouse |
Katherine Durham
(m. 1896; div. 1914) |
Partner | Yvonne Payerne |
Children | 3 |
Parents | Samuel Osbourne Fanny Vandegrift |
Relatives | Isobel Osbourne (sister) Robert Louis Stevenson (stepfather) Edward Salisbury Field (brother-in-law) |
Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (April 7, 1868 – May 22, 1947) was an American author and the stepson of the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, with whom he co-authored three books, including The Wrecker. He also provided input and ideas on others. Osbourne wrote a number of stories and essays on his own, including An Intimate Portrait of R L S By His Stepson (1924).
Early life
Lloyd Osbourne was born in
The family moved to Virginia City, Nevada. Samuel began philandering with saloon girls, and in 1866 he left to prospect for gold in the Coeur d'Alene Mountains. Fanny and her daughter journeyed to San Francisco. There was a rumour that Sam had been killed by a grizzly bear, but he returned to the family safe in 1868. Shortly thereafter Lloyd was born. Samuel continued philandering and Fanny returned to Indianapolis.
The couple were reconciled again in 1869, and lived in
While in Paris, Lloyd's mother met and befriended the author Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson and Fanny became deeply attached to each other; in 1880 Fanny divorced her husband and married Stevenson when Lloyd was just twelve years old. As a boy, Lloyd and his stepfather painted a map of an imaginary island, and this was the inspiration for Stevenson's classic Treasure Island. Although he would study engineering at the University of Edinburgh, Osbourne wished to become a writer, an idea that was encouraged by his stepfather.
South Seas with Stevenson
In June 1888, Stevenson chartered a yacht and set sail with his new family from San Francisco across the Pacific Ocean, visiting important island groups.[1] They stopped for an extended stay in the Hawaiian Islands where Stevenson became good friends with King Kalākaua.
In 1890 Lloyd Osbourne, his mother, and Stevenson sailed from
In 1890 the family settled in
On April 9, 1896, Osbourne married Katherine Durham in Honolulu; they had two children. The couple divorced in 1914. In 1916 they remarried on condition that they would not have any more children; they later divorced again.[year missing]
Later years
Osbourne spent the period of 1936 in the
Osbourne's son, Alan Osbourne, served in WWI and was an Editor-in-Chief of the
Collaborations with Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Wrong Box
- The Ebb-Tide
- The Wrecker, which was also used as the basis for a 1957 television series episode of Maverick with the same title, starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, with due credit given to both Stevenson and Osbourne in the closing credits.
Other works
- The Queen Versus Billy and Other Stories (1900)
- Forty Years Between (March 1903)
- Love, The Fiddler (1903)
- The Fugitives of Pleasure (February 1904)
- The Motormaniacs (1905)
- Infatuation (1909)
- Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas (1921)
- An Intimate Portrait of R L S By His Stepson (1924)
References
- ^ In the South Seas (1896) & (1900) Chatto & Windus; republished by The Hogarth Press (1987). A collection of Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific
- Fanny Vandegrift Stevensonmiss-names the ship as the Janet Nicol in her account of the 1890 voyage, which was published as The Cruise of the Janet Nichol among the South Sea Islands A Diary by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson (first published 1914), republished 2004, editor, Roslyn Jolly (U. of Washington Press/U. of New South Wales Press)
- ^ photographs published in The Cruise of the Janet Nichol among the South Sea Islands A Diary by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson (first published 1914), republished 2004, editor, Roslyn Jolly (U. of Washington Press/U. of New South Wales Press)
- ISBN 0-571-13808-X
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
External links
- Works by Lloyd Osbourne at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Lloyd Osbourne at Internet Archive
- Works by Lloyd Osbourne at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)