accounts of the British writer Samuel Johnson's life written by his contemporaries. They are listed by date of publication. The Annals: An Account of...

disconcerted some on meeting him. Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, along with other biographies, documented Johnson's behaviour and mannerisms in such detail...

Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. It is among...

Dr Johnson's House is a writer's house museum in London in the former home of the 18th-century English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson. The house...

virtually no success. A relatively full account of Johnson's brief musical career emerged in the 1960s, largely from accounts by Son House, Johnny Shines, David...

to infer diagnoses of conditions that were unknown in Johnson's day. His health and conditions had "damaging effects on Johnson's personal and professional...

Johnson's singing style is the blind musician Madkin Butler, who, like Johnson, sang his religious message on the streets of Texas cities. Johnson's music...

list of Blackbeard's crew which appeared in Johnson's book. The author, who uses the name Captain Charles Johnson, has remained unknown in spite of numerous...

distantly related to the family of Johnson's son-in-law Daniel Stover. (In 1869 Johnson's widowed daughter Mary Johnson Stover married Brown, a widower...

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...