“The attribution of A General History of the Pyrates (1724) to Daniel Defoe, proposed by John R. Moore in 1932, was overturned by Furbank and Owens in 1988, and many historians now regard the author behind the pen name 'Captain Charles Johnson' as unidentified.”

Context. Arne Bialuschewski (2004) proposes the journalist and publisher Nathaniel Mist as the author; Rogozinski and others have defended Defoe.