Jonathan Swift (Nov. 30, 1667 - Oct. 19, 1745)
Jonathan Swift served as an accountant early in his adulthood; however, when he grew tired of this, he became an ordained minister, and later served at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. His writing often betrays a severe dislike of humanity, visible in the final book of "Gulliver's Travels" and culminating in his satirical "A Modest Proposal." Late in his life, he suffered paralysis, followed by aphasia, and finally died in 1745. The bulk of his money was left to a psychiatric hospital after his death.
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