Who wrote the Middle English work 'The Canterbury Tales'?

Who wrote the Middle English work The Canterbury Tales? Geoffrey Chaucer wrote it.

Chaucer composed the collection in Middle English between about 1387 and 1400. It uses a frame story: pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury agree to tell stories on their journey to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. The work combines verse, satire, romance, sermons, fabliaux and moral tales.

The surviving text contains 24 completed tales, although Chaucer’s original plan was much larger—four stories for each pilgrim, potentially around 120. He died in 1400 before finishing the project, and medieval manuscripts preserve different arrangements and readings.

A common mix-up is confusing Chaucer with William Caxton, who printed early editions of the work in the late 15th century but did not write it. The Canterbury Tales helped establish English as a major literary language alongside French and Latin.