Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660, he was writer and journalist. He got a great fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe and he is consider to be one of the earliest proponents of the novel as he helped to popularize this genre in Britain. He wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of economic.
His birthdate and birthplace are uncertain, and sources offer dates from 1659–1662, with 1660 considered the most likely. His father James Foe was a prosperous tallow chandler and a member of the Worshipful Company of Butchers. His mother Annie had died by the time that he was about ten.
Defoe was educated at the Rev. James Fisher's boarding school in Dorking, Surrey. His parents dissenters, and around the age of 14 he attended a dissenting academy at Newington Green in London run by Charles Morton, and he is believed to have attended the Newington Green Unitarian Church. During this period, the English government persecuted those who chose to worship outside the Church of England.
Defoe's first notable publication was An Essay upon Projects, a series of proposals for social and economic improvement, published in 1697. His most successful poem, The True-Born Englishman (1701), defended the king against the perceived xenophobia of his enemies, satirizing the English claim to racial purity.
From 1719 to 1724, Defoe published the novels for which he is famous (see below). He published a number of books decrying the breakdown of the social order, such as The Great Law of Subordination Considered (1724) and Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business (1725) and works on the supernatural, like The Political History of the Devil (1726), A System of Magick (1727) and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions (1727).
One of the most his popular novels: Robinson Crusoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton, Colonel Jack, A Journal of the Plague Year.
Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, (today Bunhill Fields Burial and Gardens), Borough of Islington, London, where a monument was erected to his memory in 1870. Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names.