Daniel Defoe (/dɪˈfoʊ/; born Daniel Foe; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731) was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous...

Defoe may refer to: Defoe (surname), most notably English author Daniel Defoe Defoe, Webster County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Defoe...

including John Bunyan (died 1688), author of The Pilgrim's Progress; Daniel Defoe (died 1731), author of Robinson Crusoe; William Blake (died 1827), artist...

is a work of journalism and science reporting by the English author Daniel Defoe. It has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism,...

writer-publishers. Some scholars have suggested that the author was actually Daniel Defoe, but this is disputed. A prime source for the biographies of many well...

Moll Flanders is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her...

Robert Moore (1890–1973) was an American biographer and bibliographer of Daniel Defoe. John Robert Moore was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of an Episcopalian...

Robinson Crusoe (/ˈkruːsoʊ/ KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. Written with a combination of epistolary...

Notable people with the surname include: Annette DeFoe (1890–1960), American silent film actress Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731), English trader, writer, and journalist...

In 1665, commonly called A Journal of the Plague Year, is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences...

offender with stones, bricks and other dangerous objects. However, when Daniel Defoe was sentenced to the pillory in 1703 for seditious libel, he was regarded...

An autobiographical "Narrative", thought to have been ghostwritten by Daniel Defoe, was sold at his execution, quickly followed by popular plays. The character...

Thomas Harrison. There is no evidence for the persistent attribution to Daniel Defoe or John Somers as authors. The most cited section of the revised (1710)...

Brosnan in the title role, based on Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. The film opens to a fictionalized Daniel Defoe being offered to read a castaway's...

Congreve 1702: The Shortest Way with the Dissenters by Daniel Defoe 1703: Hymn to the Pillory by Daniel Defoe 1704: The Campaign by Joseph Addison; Miscellany...

a prostitute who began to teach Wild criminal ways and, according to Daniel Defoe, "brought him into her own gang, whether of thieves or whores, or of...

science fiction retelling of the classic 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures and filmed in Technicolor...

Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe and its sequel The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe...

executed at Kingston is an anonymous text (1726) first attributed to Daniel Defoe by James Crossley. According to the pamphlet this group was a small detachment...

consumption of gin increased rapidly in Great Britain, especially in London. Daniel Defoe commented: "the Distillers have found out a way to hit the palate of...

becoming one of the reputed sources of inspiration for the English writer Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk was the son of...

hand. The genre takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The success of this novel spawned so many imitations that its name was...

Puritan minister Increase Mather dismissed the word as bereft of power. Daniel Defoe wrote dismissively about Londoners who posted the word on their doorways...

the works of Daniel Defoe and made major contributions to the question of attributions to Defoe in A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe, The Canonisation...

in the upper class. Writers who used Mrs for unmarried women include Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Johnson. The split into...

declared that the storm was God's vengeance for the sins of the nation. Daniel Defoe thought it was a divine punishment for poor performance against Catholic...

and Angela Lansbury. It is based on the 1722 novel Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. In 18th century England, an orphan, Moll Flanders, grows up to become...

Morgan Freeman, loosely based on the 1722 novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe. The film, which vastly differs from the original novel, was written...

Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. Rogers came from an experienced seafaring family...

Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave (1688) Anonymous, Vertue Rewarded (1693) Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (a.k.a...