Jonathan Swift
Language: English
Hometown: Dublin, Ireland
Years active: 1696-1745
Jonathan Swift, pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff, was an Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726), he wrote such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and “A Modest Proposal” (1729).
(Source: Britannica)
