James Boswell

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James Boswell (October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795) was a Scottish lawyer and author. He is best known for having written the Life of Johnson, a biography of his close friend Samuel Johnson, published in 1791. In the 1920s and 1930s a large number of his personal papers and journals were discovered. They have since then been published by Yale University.

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