Studia dal 1890 al 1893 a Princeton e diventa bibliotecario e archivista. Nel 1918 fonda la Biblioteca americana a Parigi e ne diventa in seguito il direttore. Oltre alla sua professione di archivista, per la quale è particolarmente stimato, Burton Egbert Stevenson è scrittore e narratore prolifico di libri di viaggi e per bambini e di romanzi polizieschi.
Opere
A Soldier of Virginia; a Tale of Colonel Washington and Braddock's defeat (1901)
Cadets of Gascony: Two stories of old France (1904)
The Marathon Mystery; a Story of Manhattan (1904)
The Holliday Case; a Tale (1904)
The Girl With the Blue Sailor (1906)
Affairs of state; Being an account of certain surprising adventures which befell an American family in the land of windmills (1906)
The path of honor; a Tale of war in the Bocage (1910)
The spell of Holland: the Story of a pilgrimage to the land of dykes and windmills (1911)
The mystery of the Boule cabinet; a Detective story (1911)
The destroyer; a Tale of international intrigue (1913)
American men of mind (1913)
The charm of Ireland (1914)
The Girl from Alsace; a Romance of the great war (1915)
A King in Babylon (1917)
The Gloved Hand; a Detective story (1920)
The Kingmakers (1922)
The House Next Door; a Detective story (1932)
The quest for the rose of Sharon (1909)
The heritage; a Story of defeat and victory (1902)
At odds with the regent; a Story of the cellamare conspiracy (1905)
[The mystery of] Villa Aurelia; a Riviera interlude (1932)
The red carnation; an Antony Bigelow story (1939)
The clue of the red carnation (1942)
Romanzi per ragazzi
Tommy Remington's battle (1902)
The young section-hand (1905)
The young train dispatcher (1907)
The young train master (1909)
Antologie
The home book of verse (1912)
Poems of American history (1922)
Great Americans as seen by the poets (1933)
The home book of Bible quotations (1949)
The home book of proverbs, maxims, and familiar phrases (1959)
American history in verse for boys and girls (1960)
The home book of modern verse; an extension of the home book of verse; being a selection from American and English poetry of the twentieth century (1960)
The home book of great poetry; a treasury of over one thousand favorite poems
Famous single poems and the controversies which have raged around them
The home book of verse for young folks
The home book of Shakespeare quotations; being also a concordance & a glossary of the unique words & phrases in the plays & poems
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