De Foe, DANIEL

1661-1731. English author, at first of political and other tracts. The True Born English man, 1701, was a satire in verse. His Shortest Way With Di enters, 1703, brought him to the pillory and to prison. He ed. The Review, 1704-13, wrote a History of the Union (with Scotland), 1709, and was for a time employed by government, but in 1713 was again imprisoned and fined £800. Besides the immortal Robin son Crusoe, 1719, he pub. Captain Singleton, 1720; Memoirs of a Cavalier, 1720; Moll Flanders, 1721; Journal of the Plague, 1722: Colonel Jack, 1722; and Roxana, 1724. He is the father of the realistic novel.