Another of his novels was inspired by Hayy ibn Yaqdhan's Philosophicus Autodidactus.
Some of this author's debt problems stemmed from a failed civet cat-breeding venture. In one of his novels, the title character is talked out of both suicide and piracy by the Quaker doctor William Walters. Another of his novels was inspired by Hayy ibn Yaqdhan's Philosophicus Autodidactus. A punishment handed down by Salathiel Lovell prompted this author of Captain Singleton to write "Hymn to the Pillory", which gained him public support during his time spent in the stocks for writing The (*) Shortest Way with the Dissenters. One of his title characters is sent to Virginia, where she reunites with her brother Humphrey, to whom she'd once been married. Another of his title characters escapes pirates with a boy named Xury, then later encounters the cannibal Friday on an island near the Orinoco. For 10 points, name this sometime spy who wrote the novels Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe.
Some of this author's debt problems stemmed from a failed civet cat-breeding venture.
Daniel Defoe [or Daniel Foe]