Richard Head

Richard Head as depicted on the frontispiece to the second edition of his The English rogue described in the life of Meriton Latroon (London: F. Kirkman, 1666).

Richard Head (c. 1637 – before June 1686) was an Irish author, playwright and bookseller. He became famous with his satirical novel The English Rogue (1665), one of the earliest novels in English that found a continental translation.[citation needed]