A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE PICK“Engrossing . . . [A] richly researched and vivid double portrait.” —Phyllis Rose, The Atlantic“A love story, an adventure story, two literary biographies in one; A Wilder Shore is these things and more—and it's very, very good.” —Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Women Behind the DoorThe extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de GriftHe was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silver miner’s wife, with children, when they met. Who could have predicted that Fanny Van de Grift and Robert Louis Stevenson would go on to create one of history’s great literary marriages?From their first encounter in France in 1876, Fanny and Louis’s partnership transcended societal expectations to become a literary union that was prog
