Samuel Johnson (sep 18, 1709 – dec 13, 1784)
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Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican,[1] and a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".[2] James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson was selected by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".[3]Added to timeline:
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sep 18, 1709
dec 13, 1784
~ 75 years