Daniel Defoe Biography

Daniel Defoe biography

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NAME: Daniel Defoe
OCCUPATION: Journalist, Author
BIRTH DATE: c. 1660
DEATH DATE: April 24, 1731
EDUCATION: Academy at Newington Green

PLACE OF BIRTH: London, United Kingdom
PLACE OF DEATH: London, United Kingdom

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Daniel Defoe was an English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, best known for his novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders.

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Daniel Defoe was born in 1660 in London, England. He became a merchant and participated in several failing businesses, facing bankruptcy and aggressive creditors. He was also a prolific political pamphleteer which landed him in prison for slander. Late in life he turned his pen to fiction and wrote Robinson Crusoe, one of the most widely read and influential novels of all time. Defoe died in 1731.