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William Penn was born in 1644 in London.
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He attended Oxford for a short time, but was later expelled for criticizing the Church of England.
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His first work, "The Sandy Foundation Shaken", was quite controversial upon its release.
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Not long after publishing "The Sandy Foundation Shaken", Penn was jailed for blasphemy.
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One of Penn's most famous works, "No Cross, No Crown", talked about Penn's view on how to be a good Christian.
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He later took a trip to Ireland, to manage some of his Father's property. It is there where Penn officially became a Quaker.
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Penn eventually became a very important figure in the Quaker community, and was chosen to establish a Quaker colony in the New World. This colony would later become Pennsylvania.
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Being a Quaker, when Penn arrived in America, he was very kind to the Native Americans. He treated them with much more respect than many of the other colonists.
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Penn later died in 1718, at the age of 73 in Berkshire, England.
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