Arend Fokke Simonsz

Born in 1755 and dying in 1812, he was a Dutch writer best known for satire and prose. Sources available here identify him as a literary figure of the late Enlightenment period in the Netherlands, with a reputation tied to witty, critical writing rather than to a single modern bestseller.

His surviving public profile is strongest in Dutch literary reference sources, which list his works and confirm his place in the country’s literary history. The image available from his Wikipedia page appears to be a portrait engraving, which fits how many authors of his era are represented today.

Because easily accessible English-language biographical detail is limited in the sources I could confirm, it is safest to describe him simply as an eighteenth-century Dutch man of letters whose satirical writing earned a lasting place in literary catalogs and historical reference pages.