Defoe

American

[dih-foh] / dɪˈfoʊ /

Or De Foe

noun

Daniel 1659?–1731, English novelist and political journalist.

Defoe British

/ dɪˈfəʊ /

noun

Daniel. ?1660–1731, English novelist, journalist, spymaster, and pamphleteer, noted particularly for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). His other novels include Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)

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Delia Defoe, his editor at Papyrus Publishing, claims that she has never met him—or even spoken to him on the phone!

From Literature

John Adams considered Daniel Defoe’s novel “an effort of genius.”

From The Wall Street Journal

How she wished she had brought Rainbow in Ribbons instead of Poe and Defoe!

From Literature

The Sunderland fan became "best mates" with his hero, striker Jermain Defoe, as well as gaining worldwide recognition following an appeal in which he received 250,000 Christmas cards from around the globe.

From BBC

Neither of them picked up any extra points, which confirmed Defoe's win by 80-60.

From BBC

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