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About the Author

Daniel Defoe is best known as the author of Robinson Crusoe. His contribution to the English novel is invaluable, his fictional first-hand accounts detailing exotic plots in straightforward, documentary prose. In addition to his novels, Defoe also worked as a journalist, satirist, moralist, historian, and travel writer, his vast literary output a curious marriage of realism and fantasy that provides much insight into early eighteenth-century life and a lasting contribution to the novel genre.