Daniel Author - Born toward the of the summer of 1660, died on Apr 24, 1731- innovational family name Foe, Author altered it in 1703

English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, author of ROBINSON CRUSOE (1719), a story of a man shipwrecked alone on an island. On with Prophet Richardson, Author is considered the founder of the English novel. Before his time stories were normally written as long poems or dramas. He make several 200 works of nonfictional prose prose in addition to close 2 000 short essays in periodical publications, several of which he besides edited.

"One day, just about noon, going towards my boat, I was passing amazed with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was really plain to be seen on the sand." (from Robinson Crusoe)

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