Born on this day – Henry Fielding:

Writer

April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754

Credits:

A Journey from This World to the Next (1749); Amelia (1751); An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (aka Shamela) (1741); An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751); An Old Man Taught Wisdom (1735); Grub Street Opera (1731); Historical Register for the Year 1736 (1737); Jonathan Wild (aka The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great) (1743); Joseph Andrews (aka The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742); Joseph Andrews / Shamela (1961); Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755); Legal Writings (1919); Miscellanies by Henry Fielding, Esq (1743); Pasquin (1736); Plays and Poems (1919); Rape upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in his own Trap (aka The Coffee-House Politician) (1730); The Author's Farce (1730); The Collected Works of Henry Fielding (1997); The Complete Works of Henry Fielding (1902); The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding (1993); The Covent Garden Journal (1752); The Female Husband (1746); The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (aka Tom Jones) (1749); The Jacobite's Journal and Related Writings (1974); The Modern Husband (1732); The Old Debauchees (1732); The True Patriot (1745); The Wedding Day (1743); The Works of Henry Fielding (1900); Tragedy of Tragedies (1731).