There are few writers whose lives are as intriguing as their fiction, but Daniel Defoe, author of Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year, an account of his survival ...

The author of 120 Days of Sodom and the man whose ... 120 Days of Sodom was auctioned for €7m. Throughout his life Daniel Defoe was never far from trouble and died hiding from creditors.