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Daniel Defoe biography

Occupation: Journalist, Author
Birth Date: 1660
Death Date: April 24, 1731
Education: Academy at Newington Green
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: London,England

Daniel Defoe was born in 1660 in London, England. He became a merchant and participated in several failing businesses, facing bankruptcy and aggressive creditors. Defoe married MaryTuffley, the daughter of a London merchant, and received a dowry of £3,700. With his debts and political trouble, their marriage was most likely a difficult one. It lasted 50 years, however, and togetherthey had eight children, six of whom survived
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.
He wrote over five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychologyand the supernatural). He is also a pioneer of economic journalism.

Robinson Crusoe
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and TwentyYears, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WithAn Account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pirates
Author: Daniel Defoe
Type of work: Novel
Genre: Adventure story; novel of isolation
Language: English
Time and place written: 1719;London, England
Narrator: Robinson Crusoe is both the narrator and main character of the tale.
Point of view: Crusoe narrates in both the first and third person, presenting what he observes. Crusoeoccasionally describes his feelings, but only when they are overwhelming. Usually he favors a more factual narrative style focused on actions and events.
Setting (place) · York, England; then...