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Books by Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731) was an English writer, trader, and political journalist who wrote Robinson Crusoe at approximately age fifty-nine, late in a career spent primarily on political pamphlets and commercial journalism. He had been bankrupted multiple times, imprisoned for seditious libel, and worked as a government spy. Robinson Crusoe (1719) was his first novel; Moll Flanders and Journal of the Plague Year followed shortly after. He is now considered one of the founders of the English novel, though he did not consider himself a novelist.