Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 is most famous for his mammoth work the English Dictionary but he wrote a lot of other things including (in 1759) a philosophical novel The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abbysinia. He wrote it to support his seriously ill mother who died as it was published. As he himself once said "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." I have read a book claiming he became a Christian in later life. If so, he may be the same as Daniel Defoe mentioned before, who someone contacted me about saying he too was converted in later life.
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