Until now, there has been no very satisfactory biography of Daniel Defoe, and this is a somewhat surprising state of affairs. Surely, the author of ”Robinson Crusoe,” ”Moll Flanders” and an almost ...

THIS book fulfills a need which should have been felt long ago--a biography of DeFoe approached from the historian's point of view. Father of the novel, among the first journalists, and author of ...

There are few writers whose lives are as intriguing as their fiction, but Daniel Defoe, author of Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year, an account of his survival through ...

Mark Lawson explores the influence of Daniel Defoe. In the company of writers, critics and cartoonists, he tells the story of the man who never stopped telling stories. Show more Mark Lawson presents ...

David Roberts is the co-editor of the World Classics edition of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year with Louis Landa. In 1722, Daniel Defoe pulled off one of the great literary hoaxes of all ...