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The best books on Samuel Johnson

Your first book is by a contemporary of Johnson’s, James Boswell. 

This is the groupies’ biography in that Boswell was a cloying groupie but, nonetheless, he wrote the greatest Johnson biography of all time and the best known. It was written at the time and, of course, Boswell took down every word Johnson said. It is extremely vivid, though you never know to what extent Boswell was tarting it up at the end of the day, but, given that Johnson had this pithy style, it’s probably hard to embellish very much. Johnson made it a practice from his earliest youth never to say anything unless he said it as well as you could possibly say it. He had a crisp style and spoke Latin so his English was very good.

Your next book is the John Wain biography.

Wain was a poet and novelist and he wrote this biography in the late 1960s, I think. I got him to come and speak at the Bow Group. He was not a great Tory, but he was conservative with a small “c” and he was a bit of an angry young man. Samuel Johnson was an angry young man and a Tory, a Conservative with a capital “C”. This book is wonderful for its sheer sympathy, perhaps because it is written from the point of view of a fellow poet and novelist. I knew Johnson was a Tory and I knew he had that bor

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Life of Samuel Johnson

This article is about the book written by James Boswell. For the work written by John Hawkins, see Life of Samuel Johnson (Hawkins book).

Biography of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell

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. Many have called it the greatest biography written in English,^[1] one of the greatest biographies ever written,^[2] and among the greatest nonfiction books of all time.^[3] The book is valued as both an important source of information on Johnson and his times, as well as an important and enduring work of literature.

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On 16 May 1763, as a 22-year-old Scot visiting London, Boswell first met Johnson in the book shop of Johnson's friend Tom Davies.^[4] They quickly became friends, although for many years they met only when Boswell visited London in the intervals of his law practice in Scotland.^[4] From the age of 20, Boswell kept a series of journals thoroughly detailing his day-to-day experience.^[4] This journal, wh