James Boswell - Wikipedia James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck ( ˈbɒzwɛl, - wəl ; 29 October 1740 (N S ) [1] – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh
James Boswell | Scottish Biographer Journalist | Britannica James Boswell (born October 18 [October 29, New Style], 1740, Edinburgh, Scotland—died May 19, 1795, London, England) was a friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson (Life of Johnson, 2 vol , 1791) The 20th-century publication of his journals proved him to be also one of the world’s greatest diarists
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Life of Samuel Johnson - Wikipedia The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL D (1791) by James Boswell is a biography of English writer and literary critic Samuel Johnson The work was from the beginning a universal critical and popular success, and represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography
James Boswells Scotland - Smithsonian Magazine Boswell, a self-described “gentleman of ancient blood,” was a lawyer and a writer who knew Johnson well for more than 20 years He was also a kind of genius His biography
History | Yale Boswell Editions For about 150 years after his death, James Boswell (1740 – 1795) was widely known as an eccentric Scottish gentleman lawyer who happened to write the Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD (first edition 1791), one of the supreme achievements in biography, and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LLD (1785), an unusual and
James Boswell summary | Britannica James Boswell, (born Oct 29, 1740, Edinburgh, Scot —died May 19, 1795, London, Eng ), Scottish friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson Boswell, a lawyer, met Johnson in 1763 and visited him often (1772–84), making a superlatively detailed record in his journals of Johnson’s conversations