Daniel Defoe         Even though Daniel Defoe, a restoration author, is usually remembered for "Robinson Crusoe", he wrote over five hundred different works throughout his life. Defoe, an English novelist, journalist, and pamphleteer, is considered to be the founder of the English novel. According to Liukkonen "he produced some 200 works of nonfiction prose in addition to close to 2,000 short essays in periodical publications, several of which he also edited" (Kirjasto)         Daniel Defoe was born the son …showed first 75 words of 519 total…

…showed last 75 words of 519 total…Crusoe" was based "partly on the memoirs of voyagers and castaways, such as Alexander Selkirk, who spent on his island four years and four months" (Kirjasto).          Works Cited Liukkonen, Petri. "Daniel Defoe" http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/defoe.htm 2003 MacLeod, Laura. "Daniel 'The True-Born Englishman' Defoe"         http://www.incompetech.com/authors/defoe/ 1996-1997 Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, The. "Daniel Defoe, English Literature, 1500-1799,         Biographies" http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/D/Defoe.html 2003 Encyclopedia Britannica. "Defoe, Daniel" 2000