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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 the English writer Samuel Johnson , Life of Samuel Johnson , which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.

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   May 15, 2024 · 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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   May 16, 2013 · The Boswell Book Festival takes place at Auchinleck House in Ayrshire from 17 to 19 May. A meeting 250 years ago led to Scottish author James Boswell completely re-inventing how biography is...

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   • James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck ( / ˈbɒzwɛl, - wəl /; 29 October 1740 ( N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.

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   • Boswell saw the second edition of the Life through the press (July 1793) and was at work on the third when he died in 1795. 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.

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   Who was Alexander Boswell?

   • Boswell was born in Blair's Land on the east side of Parliament Close behind St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh on 29 October 1740 ( N.S. ). He was the eldest son of a judge, Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, and his wife Euphemia Erskine. As the eldest son, he was heir to his family's estate of Auchinleck in Ayrshire.

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   Did James Boswell meet Dr Johnson?

   • 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 was very charming" so he obviously wanted to meet the stars of the day such as Johnson, says James Knox.

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   James Boswell (1740-1795) - advocate, traveller, journalist, Scotsman and author of that most amazing book, the Life of Johnson. James Boswell as painted in 1765 by George Willison.

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   As author of the Life of Dr Johnson, Boswell invented the art of modern biography; his tour to the Hebrides and his account of Corsica established him as one of the earliest travel writers; and his rediscovered journals first published in the 1950s turned him into a twentieth-century literary sensation.

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   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.

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   Jun 8, 2018 · BOSWELL, JAMES (1740 – 1795), Scottish biographer, lawyer, and man of letters. James Boswell is most famous as the author of the Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), perhaps the most celebrated biography in the English language. He was the eldest son of Alexander Boswell, judge and laird of Auchinleck, whose title came from the family estate in ...