Daniel Defoe was an English writer with more than 500 books (Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe), pamphlets and journals on politics, the supernatural, crime, psichology, marriage and religion.
He´s considered a founder of English novel and Economic Journalism.
He experienced first hand remarkable historical events: the Great Plage of London (1665) were 70.000 died and the Great Fire of London (1666) which left only his home and two others standing.
When he was 7, the Dutch fleet attacked Kent, sailing up the Medway river via the Thames and he witnessed the Great Storm of 1703 that hit Bristol and London uprooting millions of trees and killing over 8.000 people.
In 1703, his political ideas and pamphlets had him arrested in the Newgate Prison and placed in the pillory (as seen on the illustration above) for 3 days!
Legend says that the publication of his poem Hymn to the Pillory, caused his audience to throw flowers at him instead of harmful objects and to drink to his health.
Mr. Magoo as Robinson Crusoe
