Born in Dublin, Ireland on November 30, 1667. He was an Anglo-Irish cleric, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer and poet, famous for works like Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapier’s Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift was probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift published all of his works under pseudonyms–such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier–or anonymously. At the age of 77 he died in year 1745.
