Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) was an English author best known for his adventure novel, Robinson Crusoe, that he wrote later in life. A prolific writer, Defoe authored several books on economics, history, biography and crime. He pursued a variety of careers including merchant, soldier, secret agent and political pamphleteer, but is best remembered for his fiction. Daniel Defoe's other widely read books include Roxana, Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year. The name of the Robinson Crusoe Island, located in the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile, was inspired by Defoe's famous story.
Daniel Defoe Books in English
![Title: A General History of the Pyrates [Pirates], from Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time; With the Remarkable Actions and Adventures of the Two Female Pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny., Author: Daniel Defoe](http://prodimage.images-bn.com/mimages/0000000000000_p0_v0_s192x300.jpg)
