Daniel Defoe
Furbank won a Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for his "Diderot: A Critical Biography" (1992). He also edited the works of Daniel Defoe and made major contributions to the question of attributions to Defoe in "A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe", "The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe", and "A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe" all co-written with W. R. Owens. Furbank also helped oversee the publication of Alan Turing's collected works.