Thomas Paine was a British-American philosopher, journalist, and a revolutionary writer. He was born on February 9, 1737, in Norfolk, Great Britain. In 1774, he emigrated to America. Paine is most famous for his revolutionary writings like Common Sense (1776), which is said to have been read by all the revolutionaries during the American Revolution. His other notable works include The American Crisis (1776-1783), and The Rights of Man (1791), The Age of Reason (1793- 1794), Agrarian Justice (1797)