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Daniel Defoe
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Who Was Daniel Defoe?
Daniel Defoe became a merchant and participated in several failing businesses, facing bankruptcy and aggressive creditors.
He was also a prolific political pamphleteer which landed him in prison for slander. Late in life he turned his pen to fiction and wrote Robinson Crusoe, one of the most widely read and influential novels of all time.
Early Life
Daniel Foe, born circa , was the son of James Foe, a London butcher.
Daniel later changed his name to Daniel Defoe, wanting to sound more gentlemanly.
Defoe graduated from an academy at Newington Green, run by the Reverend Charles Morton.
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Not long after, in , he went into business, having given up an earlier intent on becoming a dissenting minister. He traveled often, selling such goods as wine and wool, but was rarely out of debt. He went bankrupt in (paying his debts for nearly a decade thereafter), and by , decided to leave the business industry altogether.
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