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James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (/ ˈ b ɒ z w ɛ l,-w əl /; 29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson , Life of Samuel Johnson , which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.
James Boswell 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. Boswell’s father, Alexander Boswell, advocate and laird of Auchinleck in Ayrshire from 1749, was
May 16, 2013 · James Boswell did not meet Dr Johnson, compiler of the first great English Dictionary and arbiter of literary taste, by chance. The young Scot was "super-intelligent, had great literary taste and ...
First published in 1950 in the USA and UK, it sold half a million copies in its first four years. This edition published in 2010 and edited by Gordon Turnbull. James Boswell (1740-1795) sprang from an ancient Ayrshire family, becoming biographer to Dr Samuel Johnson, and inventor of the art of the modern biography.
The much-loved Scottish actor, known to many through his recent roles in Shetland, Fleabag, Guilt and Rebecca as well as through his narration of numerous TV and radio programmes including being the voice of BBC 1’s ‘The Repair Shop’ and the reading of his own classic childhood memoir Tales from the Back Green, will be reading excerpts from James Boswell’s most enduring books and ...
Life of Samuel Johnson. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) by James Boswell is a biography of English writer Samuel Johnson. The work was from the beginning a critical and popular success, and represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography. It is notable for its extensive reports of Johnson's conversation.
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Boswell, detail of an oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1786; in the National Portrait Gallery, London. 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 ...
