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Daniel Defoe
1660 – 1731
English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)
- Kingdom of England · Kingdom of Great Britain · United Kingdom
- British
About
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724). He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson.
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