W. E. Henley
Henley, William Ernest
August 23, 1849 – July 11, 1903 (aged 53)
Birth place: Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
<br> Henley edited several British literary periodicals, including <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?33816">The National Observer</a> from 1889 to 1893 and later <i>The New Review</i> (below). Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, James Barrie, William Butler Yeats, and Rudyard Kipling [and Henley a good friend of Stevenson; inspired Long John Silver]