Stevens, Robin: - Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in Oxford, England, across the road from the house where Alice of Alice in Wonderland lived. Robin has been making up stories all her life. She spent her teenage years at boarding school, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that shed get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didnt). She studied crime fiction in college and then worked in childrens publishing. Robin now lives in England with her family.