Question: The Pardoner's Tale is a tale by an author known as what?
Context: "Master Cat, or The Booted Cat" (Italian: "Il gatto con gli stivali" ; French: "Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté" ), commonly known in English as "Puss in Boots", is a European literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.  The oldest record of written history dates from Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola, who included it in his "The Facetious Nights of Straparola" (c. 1550–53) in XIV–XV.  Another version was published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile with the title "Cagliuso", and a tale was written in French at the close of the seventeenth century by Charles Perrault (1628–1703), a retired civil servant and member of the "Académie française".  The tale appeared in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript two years before its 1697 publication by Barbin in a collection of eight fairy tales by Perrault called "Histoires ou contes du temps passé".  The book was an instant success and remains popular. Dr. Lisa Klein is an American author known for her Shakesperean works including "Ophelia" and "Lady Macbeth's Daughter".  She was an assistant professor of English at The Ohio State University for eight years but left when she was denied tenure.  She turned to writing afterwards, publishing such books as "Two Girls of Gettysburg" and "Cate of the Lost Colony", based on the tale of the Roanoke Colony.  She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband and two sons. Kathleen Ferguson (born in Derry in 1958) is an Irish author known for "The Maid's Tale" which won the 1995 "Irish Times" Literature Prize for fiction.  Educated at the University of Ulster at Coleraine.  It was praised by the London "Independent" for its "wonderful candour" and the "lovely Derry idiom". Barry Miles, or "Miles" (born 1943, in Cirencester, England), is an English author known for his participation in and writing on the subjects of the 1960s London underground and counterculture.  He is the author of numerous books and his work has also regularly appeared in left-wing papers such as "The Guardian".  In the 1960s, he was co-owner of the Indica Gallery and helped start the independent newspaper "International Times". The Pardoner's Tale is one of "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer.  In the order of the Tales, it comes after The Physician's Tale and before The Shipman's Tale; it is prompted by the Host's desire to hear something positive after that depressing tale.  The Pardoner initiates his Prologue—briefly accounting his methods of conning people—and then proceeds to tell a moral tale. Michael Norman (born June 29, 1947) is an American author known for his supernatural book series "Haunted" which he has written alongside fellow author Beth Scott.  Norman, who hails from Illinois, graduated with a master's degree from Northern Illinois University in 1969.  He worked at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls journalism department from 1973 until his retirement in May 2003.  Michael had a guest appearance on the Cartoon Network talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast on March 8, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia with Bill Nye the Science Guy in its twenty-fourth episode, "Boo!" .  He later spoke about Haunted Hollywood on the Travel Channel, which was Number 9 on the countdown of World's Creepiest Destinations.  This author has a wife named Janell and a son named James. The Hans Fallada Prize is a German literary prize given by the city of Neumünster in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.  Since 1981 it has been normally awarded every two years to a young author from the German-speaking world.  It is named in honor of Hans Fallada, a famous 20th-century German author known for addressing political and social problems of his day in fiction. Geoffrey Chaucer ( ; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.  He was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. Dr. Mark S. Gold is a scholar, researcher, and author known for his work on the effects of food, tobacco, cocaine, and other drugs on the brain.  He is the author of commercial books and has also written over 1,000 scientific articles, chapters, and abstracts published in journals for neuroscientists and health professionals. An anonymous author known as the Anonimo Gaddiano, Anonimo Magliabechiano, or Anonimo Fiorentino ("the anonymous Florentine") is the author of the Codice Magliabechiano or Magliabechiano, a manuscript with 128 pages of text, probably from the 1530s, and now in the Central National Library of Florence (Magliab.  XVII, 17).  It includes very brief biographies and notes on the works of Italian artists, mainly those active in Florence.  Among several other suggestions, the anonymous author may have been Bernardo Vecchietti (1514-1590), a politician of the court of Cosimo I.  The author clearly had intimate access to the Medici court.
Answer: the Father of English literature