This author, during travels in France and Italy, met Laurence Sterne in Italy and was caricatured in A Sentimental Journey as Smeldungus. One of his novels, whose influence Dickens acknowledged in Pickwick Papers, centers on 
This author, during travels in France and Italy, met Laurence Sterne in Italy and was caricatured in A Sentimental Journey as Smeldungus. One of his novels, whose influence Dickens acknowledged in Pickwick Papers, centers on the picaro that is mentored by Cadwallader Crabtree and Hawser Trunnion. Following his nation's defeat at Culloden he wrote the poem "Tears of Scotland" and was imprisoned for three months for libeling Admiral Knowles. For 10 points-- name this Scottish author of Peregrine Pickle and Roderick Ransom.
This author, during travels in France and Italy, met Laurence Sterne in Italy and was caricatured in A Sentimental Journey as Smeldungus.
Tobias {Smollett}