James Boswell
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James Boswell (October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the eldest son of a judge, Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck, Lord Auchinleck. He is best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson. His name has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer.
Boswell is known for taking voracious notes on the grand tour of Europe that he took as a young nobleman.
He died in London on May 19, 1795 and is buried in the family vault at Auchinleck.
His manuscripts have been collected by Yale University.
Works
- Account of Corsica (1768)
- The Hypochondriak (1777-1783, a monthly series in the London Magazine)
- The Journal of the Tour of the Hebrides (1785)
- Dorado, a Spanish Tale (1786, anonymously)
- The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
External link
- Wikiquote - Quotes by James Boswell
- Project Gutenberg e-text of James Boswell's Life of Johnson
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "James_Boswell" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boswell, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
