Robert Louis Stevenson The Samoans insisted on surrounding his body with a watch-guard during the night and on bearing him on their shoulders to nearby Mount Vaea, where they buried him on a spot overlooking the sea on land donated by British Acting Vice Consul Thomas Trood. Stevenson had always wanted his Requiem inscribed on his tomb: Stevenson was loved by the Samoans, and his tombstone epigraph was translated to a Samoan song of grief. Half of Stevenson's original manuscripts are lost, including those of "Treasure Island", "The Black Arrow," and "The Master of Ballantrae". His heirs sold his papers during World War
Robert A. Cook Robert A. Cook Robert Andrew Cook (June 7, 1912 – March 11, 1991) was the president of The King's College (New York) in Briarcliff Manor, a Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor. He went to Moody Bible Institute when he was 16 years old. After graduating, he went to Wheaton College (Illinois) and earned a B.A. He then went to Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1931, serving 18 years as a full-time pastor. Cook's most famous book, "Now That I Believe", was originally published in 1949. It went on to become translated in 27