Wrote the first modern english biography

A number of works of literature have been claimed to be the first novel in English.

List of candidates

• Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur (a.k.a.

  Le Morte Darthur), (written c. , published )

• William Baldwin, Beware the Cat, (written , published , )^[1][2]
• John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit () and Euphues and his England () ^[3]
• Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (a.k.a.

  Wrote the first modern english biography of rizal

  Arcadia) ()

• Margaret Cavendish, The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, (a.k.a. The Blazing World) ()
• John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come ()^[4]
• Aphra Behn, Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave ()^[5]
• Anonymous, Vertue Rewarded ()^[6]
• Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (a.k.a.

  Robinson Crusoe) ()^[7] and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (also )

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