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DANIEL DEFOE
he kept changing jobs
and dreaming up project that
he thought
would make him a rich
and respocted gentleman
his unfortunate specultaions
caused him to go bankrupt
in 1703
he was fined
pilloried and imprisoned for satire
was born
in london
into a puritan
family
this pratical bent is
reflected in the actives
defoe took up in his
adult life
he was edcated
at one the best dissenting academies
the novelist
in the midst of all
his commercial
political
and literary activities
in 1719 deofe suddenly
became a novelist
with robinson crusoe
the story of a
shipwrecked sailor who for
28 years manages to survive
alone a a desert island
the father of modern journalist
he wrote almost
exclusively in prose,
mostly essy
pamphlets
and travel books
he also wrote
articles for newspapers
and magazines
and his role in laying the
foundation of modern journalist
is important
never made him rich
he died in londond
alone
and full of dept