Robert Louis Stevenson

Several other writers have called Dorset home, including Douglas Adams (author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), who lived in Stalbridge for a time; Ian Fleming (James Bond), who boarded at Durnford School, poet William Barnes; Theodore Francis Powys; John le Carré, author of espionage novels; P.D. James (Children of Men); satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock; John Fowles (The French Lieutenant's Woman), lived in Lyme Regis before John Fowles died in late 2005; John Cowper Powys, who set a number of John Fowles's most famous novels in Dorset and Somerset; and Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde while living in Bournemouth.

written by the Scottish author Robert LouisStevenson and first published in 1886

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert LouisStevenson and first published in 1886.