The Washington Post, December 10th, 1989
DANIEL DEFOE: His Life By Paula R. Backsheider Johns Hopkins. 671 pp. $29.95 DANIEL DEFOE'S chief claim to fame is as the author of a number of proto-novels, notably the classic Robinson Crusoe, and his innovative Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain. But these were only the climax to a career in political journalism and what we would now call "feature writing" which spanned more than 40 years. Paula Backsheider lists about 300 works of varying length from Defoe's pen, and other scholars have credited him with as many as 545. He also wrote for innumerable newspapers and journals, and...
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