Short answers, pulled from the story.
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric who lived from 1667 to 1745. He is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726, and is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era.
Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels in 1726, A Tale of a Tub in 1704, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in 1708, and A Modest Proposal in 1729. He also wrote The Battle of the Books, the Drapier's Letters of 1724, and the poem Cadenus and Vanessa.
Jonathan Swift published nearly all his works under pseudonyms such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, and M. B. Drapier, or anonymously. Scholars suggest these names protected him from persecution in the politically sensitive conditions of England and Ireland in which he wrote his satires.
Jonathan Swift is credited with creating the woman's name Vanessa through his poem Cadenus and Vanessa. He coined it for Esther Vanhomrigh by adding Essa, a pet form of Esther, to the Van of her surname Vanhomrigh.
Stella was Esther Johnson, whom Swift met at Moor Park when she was eight and mentored for the rest of her life, possibly marrying her in 1716. Vanessa was Esther Vanhomrigh, who followed him to Ireland and died in 1723 at age 35 after destroying the will she had made in his favour.
Jonathan Swift died on the 19th of October 1745 at nearly 78, after years of illness and a possible stroke in 1742. He was buried in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, beside Esther Johnson, and left the bulk of his fortune of 12,000 pounds to found a hospital for the mentally ill.