Daniel Defo- English novelist and essayist, is known mainly as the author of "Robinson Crusoe". Defoe is considered one of the first supporters of the novel as a genre. He helped popularize the genre in the UK, and some consider him one of the founders of the English novel. Defoe - prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and magazines on various topics (politics, the economy, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, the supernatural, and others.). He was also the founder of economic journalism. In journalism promoted bourgeois sanity, he defended religious tolerance and freedom of speech. The founder of the British intelligence.
DD was born in London, his father, a butcher was wealthy enought to give his son a good education.DD was to become a priets but it was his cherished desire to become wealthy.
