Daniel Defoe, the prolific writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, best known for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), passed away ...

To add to the hardship of his youth, Defoe lived through some of the most traumatic events in London during that century, such as the terrible Black Plague epidemic of 1665 and the Great Fire the ...

N spite of Mr. John Masefield's obvious disposition to regard Daniel Defoe as a forerunner of the modern “sociologist” rather than as a keen observer, with the gift of narrative and a strongly ...

ROBINSON CRUSOE AND HIS CREATOR; Daniel Defoe's Fascinating Story, with All Its Immortal Characters, Reappears in an Attractive Edition. Share full article Oct. 2, 1909 ...

That’s what makes Daniel Defoe, the founder of English journalism, such a thorny shrub. The hoaxers and the embellishers, the fake autobiographers, look on Defoe as a kind of patron saint. Defoe lied ...

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe may be the archetypal survivor, who endures his desert island by imposing his values on inhospitable surroundings.

Mostly, though, I’ve been catching up on the classics. For example, Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, an early example of the nonfiction novel, written in 1722 about London’s ...

Daniel Defoe survived one of the fiercest storms in British history to write the first substantial work of modern journalism and, 16 years later, "Robinson Crusoe." Skip to Main Content.

Daniel Defoe’s literary hoaxes. Nicholson Baker (who we blogged about last week) expands on the mendacious literary legacy of Daniel Defoe in the Columbia Journalism Review. The founder of English ...