Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)

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Lived 1667–1745, aged 78

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1667–1745
Aged 78

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Wrote Gulliver's Travels and invented Lilliput—the miniature island that became his calling card. An 18th-century satirist whose biting prose essays and fictional takedowns made him the era's sharpest cultural gadfly.

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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.

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