John Cleland was an English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, whose eroticism led to his arrest. James Boswell called him "a sly, old malcontent".
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, playwright, journalist
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- September 24, 1709
- Died
- January 23, 1789
