Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric, the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. Regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era, he also wrote A Tale of a Tub (1704) and A Modest Proposal (1729), publishing much of his work under pseudonyms such as Lemuel Gulliver and Isaac Bickerstaff or anonymously. He was appointed dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, in 1713, earning the sobriquet Dean Swift, and his deadpan, ironic style gave rise to the term Swiftian. Since the late eighteenth century he has been regarded as one of the most popular Irish authors globally, and Gulliver's Travels remains one of the most printed books by an Irish writer in libraries and bookstores worldwide. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/