death_date death_place influenced birth_place influences nationality name birth_date period genre image article_title birth_name occupation
17 september 1771 livorno , italy charles dickens , george orwell dalquhurn -lrb- now part of renton -rrb- , scotland cervantes scottish tobias smollett 19 march 1721 1748 -- 71 picaresque , satire tobias_smollett_c_1770 . jpg tobias smollett
 tobias george smollett author , poet , surgeon
tobias smollett

tobias george smollett -lrb- 19 march 1721 -- 17 september 1771 -rrb- was a scottish poet and author .
he was best known for his picaresque novels , such as `` the adventures of roderick random '' -lrb- 1748 -rrb- and `` the adventures of peregrine pickle '' -lrb- 1751 -rrb- , which influenced later novelists such as charles dickens .
george orwell admired smollett very much .
his novels were amended liberally by printers ; a definitive edition of each of his works was edited by dr. o. m. brack , jr. to correct variants .
