Jonathan Swift

•   He was born in 30 November 1667 and died 19 October 1745. 
•   Swift was a satirist, essayist, poet and cleric.
• His most important works are: Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub.
•   At the beginning, Swift published all of his works under pseudonyms such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier or anonymously.
•   Gulliver's Travels is considered Swift's masterpiece
•   He developed Meniere's disease, which affects the inner ear and causes dizziness, vertigo, nausea, and hearing loss.
• Swift became the Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral and he was involved inpolitics, writing for both the Whigs and the Tories.
•  In 1729 Jonathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal 
•   Jonathan died on 19 October 1745, aged 78.