Daniel Defoe
LIFE
He was born in 1660 in London into a Puritan family
He kept changing jobs
His unfortunate speculations bring him to go bankrupt.
he died in London in 1731, alone and full of debt.
He became a novelist thanks to
Robinson Crusoe
Story of a shipwrecked sailor that manages to survive alone on a desert island.
Moll Flanders
a poor girl, thanks to her physical beauty and her intelligence, finds a way for herself in the world.
HIS WORKS
Other fiction had an influence on the development of the genre.
Journal of the Plague Year
Memoirs of a Cavalier
it's a forerunner of the historical novel.
Report of the terrible plague that struck London in 1665.
He wrote in prose
mostly essays, pamphlets and travel books.
But also newspapers and magazines
foundation of modern journalism