Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish author and journalist, the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He was born on 30 November 1667 in Dublin, Ireland; the son of Protestant Anglo- Irish parents. Young Jonathan was a sickly child, and it is said he later developed Meniere´s Disease, which affects the inner ear and causes dizziness, vertigo, nausea, and hearing loss. Swift´s best known work is Gulliver´s Travels, and first published under the pseudonym Lemuel Gulliver Gulliver´s Travels ...