Round 12: Tossup 14

This author wrote about a trip to the moon on the title winged chariot in The Consolidator. A character created by this author is the subject of the Nobel lecture “He and His Man” by J.M. Coetzee, who wrote a novel in which Susan Barton seeks out this author to get him to write her life story. People paint the word “ABRACADABRA” on their doors to ward off the title disease in this author’s (*) Journal of the Plague Year. Alexander Selkirk inspired this author to create a character who sells Xury back into slavery and rescues a man he names “Friday” while shipwrecked on the “Island (10[1])of Despair.” For 10 points, name this 18th century British author of Robinson Crusoe. ■END■

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