Daniel Defoe, the prolific writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, best known for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), passed away ...

N spite of Mr. John Masefield's obvious disposition to regard Daniel Defoe as a forerunner of the modern “sociologist” rather than as a keen observer, with the gift of narrative and a strongly ...

Descendant of Daniel Defoe Dead. Share full article. Jan. 13, 1901. ... LONDON, Jan. 12.-James Defoe, the last male descendant of the author of “Robinson Crusoe,” died this week.