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Camille Peri

Camille Peri is an author and journalist who founded the website Mothers Who Think, part of the online publication Salon. She coedited Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood and Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves, which received an American Book Award.

author robert louis stevenson in a portrait with the women who were instrumental in helping him advance his literary career despite recurring illnesses, from left wife fanny stevenson, stepdaughter and literary assistant isobel osbourne, and his mother, margaret isabella stevenson

Excerpt: ‘A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson’

Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson’s two-month honeymoon provided the basis for his memoir, The Silverado Squatters, and cemented their shared love for adventure.