Who is the author of the novel 'Robinson Crusoe'?
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's character Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book to be a collection of true incidents.
It was published under the full title The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. He will be delivered ashore by a group of pirates unexpectedly