Daniel Defoe may have written the first nonfiction novel "A JournalofthePlagueYear, " published in 1722, an account oftheyearthe Black Death decimated London.
One other report from old London is Daniel Defoe's "A JournalofthePlagueYear, " a fictional, though chillingly persuasive, account ofthe metropolis under siege from the Great Plague in 1665.