British writer whose most famous novel, Robinson Crusoe(1719, was inspired by the exploits of a Scottish sailor and castaway, Alexander Selkirk.He also wrote Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year(both1722.

• 笛福，丹尼尔1660－1731英国作家，其著名的小说为鲁滨逊飘流记，由一个叫亚历山大 塞尔科克的苏格兰海员在荒岛上的探险经历激发灵感创作而成。他还著有摩尔弗兰德斯和疫年记事（都作于1722年）