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  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Dublin, Ireland
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Dublin, Ireland
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Jonathan Swift is an Irish author and satirist best known for the classic "Gulliver's Travels."


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Jonathan Swift was born on November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland. He attended, Kilkenny School, and Trinity College, received an M.A. from Oxford, and became the Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral. He was very politically involved, writing for both the Whigs and the Tories. "Gulliver's Travels," his best known work, was published in 1726 without Swift's name.

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