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Who was Daniel Defoe? Novelist. Date and Place of Birth: 1660, London, England. Family Background: Son of a tallow Chandler and Butcher of Flemish descent, James Foe. Education: Academy at Newington Green under the Reverend Charles Morton. Chronology: Written Works: 1697: "Essays upon Projects". 1701:"A True Born Englishman". 1702:"The Shortest Way with Dissenters". 1703:"A Hymn to the Pillory". 1706:"The Apparition of Mrs Veal". "Jure Divino". 1709: "The History of the Union of Great Britain". 1715:"The Family Instructor". 1719:"Robinson Crusoe". "Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe". 1720: "Adventures of Captain Singleton". "Memoirs of a Cavalier". 1722:"The History of Colonel Jack". "Journal of the Plague Year". "Moll Flanders". 1724:"The Fortunate Mistress or a History of the Life of the Lady Roxana". "A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain". 1727: "The History and Reality of Apparitions". "A System of Magic". 1728: "Captain Carleton". Marriage: 1st January 1684 to Mary Tuffley. Places of Interest: LONDON: Bunhill Fields. Date and Place of Death: 24th April 1731, London, England. Age at Death: 71. Site of Grave: Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, City Road, Finsbury, London, England.