Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870) was an English writer and social critic who wrote many famous books including David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and many others. Possibly the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, Dickens used his books, as a medium to criticize the English social structure and the problems in Western life.