He first gained notice with his pastoral romance La Galatea, but was imprisoned for irregularities in his accounts as a tax collector.
Among his plays are The Blessed Pimp and The Business at Algiers. He first gained notice with his pastoral romance La Galatea, but was imprisoned for irregularities in his accounts as a tax collector. While imprisoned, he conceived the story of a knight-errant performing various deeds, which became his best-known work. _FOR 10 POINTS_ \--name this man who wrote of The Ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha.
Among his plays are The Blessed Pimp and The Business at Algiers.
Miguel de {Cervantes} Saavedra