# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:46:13.544Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Jonathan Swift was born 30 November 1667, an Anglo-Irish cleric who hid behind pseudonyms—Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—to publish everything he wrote. In 1704 he released A Tale of a Tub, then An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in 1708, mastering both Horatian and Juvenalian modes. He was appointed dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1713. In 1726 came Gulliver's Travels, the novel that built Lilliput and became the most printed book by an Irish writer ever. Three years later A Modest Proposal landed with its infamous deadpan cruelty, spawning the term "Swiftian." He died 19 October 1745, leaving a body of work that shaped Ruskin, Orwell, and the mechanics of irony itself.