Daniel DeFoe

His real name was Daniel Foe, but he used different nicknames to avoid mocks about his name. He was and English writer and journalist. He's considered as the English Novel Founder and accused to be the first in write a novel. 

Among his works, there is an essay about economic problems, several works criticizing church; for instance, Religious Courtship where he accuses church leaders of being hypocrites and where he satirizes church. He were in New Gale Prison due to his written works.

Between 1719 and 1724 he published the works of which he became famous. For example: Everybody's business is nobody's business, Robinson Cursoe (1719), among others.

Robinson Cursoe is the narration of the adventures of a man in an island, it is an allegory of the civilization, is narrated in first person, is individualized and could be better defined as an essay than a novel for being a collection of papers.