Jason Goodwin is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Investigator Yashim series. Goodwin studied Byzantine history at Cambridge and is also the author of Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, among other award-winning nonfiction. He lives with his wife and children in England.
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The plague of 1665 was followed by the Great Fire of London in 1666: great disasters evoking great responses. Those events re-fashioned the London landscape, and Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year re-fashioned English literature.