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 ...

Years ago, in these pages, I confessed that I have read Daniel Defoe’s 1719 fictional tale, “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,” multiple times, as well as listened to the audio version. Crusoe’s ...

Mark Lawson presents a documentary exploring the far-reaching influence of Daniel Defoe. Bookshops have separate sections for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Autobiography, Travel Writing, Journalism, Economics ...

While authors such as Tim Severin have made the case for various models for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Frank’s well-researched if overly detailed account makes the case that his primary model was ...

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 ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

This summer, BBC Radio 4 are putting a spotlight on Daniel Defoe, broadcasting three dramas and a documentary about the great 18th century writer, chancer, pamphleteer, hack, part-time spy, political ...

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 ...