[di-foh] 
| Daniel 1659?–1731, English novelist and political journalist. |
| De·foe (dĭ-fō') 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 (both 1722). |