There are many basic but essential facts to be learned about Samuel Johnson. For example, he was born in 1709 and died in 1784. His life spanned the reign of four British Monarchs: Queen Anne ...

A biographer has to have the same implacable drive, not only to do justice to his subject but to biography itself, which, as Samuel Johnson said, owes an obligation to the truth most of all. Mr.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson’s esteemed biographer, was one of the visitors. Seated in the Irelands’ study, Boswell, now portly and double-chinned, held the various papers up to the lamp and ...

The revolutionary Scotsman, who created in his Lanarkshire garden 'Little Sparta', would have turned 100 this year ...

The president is said to be pleased as punch about both his ex-daughter-in-law Vanessa Trump’s relationship with golf legend ...

Cissy once said most men thought of women editors as Samuel Johnson had famously regarded ... Lance Morrow, a former essayist for Time, is writing a biography of Henry Luce.

The senior - and far and away most influential officer in the Navy - is the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). Historically, ...

This last ailment makes several irruptions into David Nokes’s readable and imaginative new biography. ‘My nights are flatulent, and unquiet’, writes Johnson in 1772; three years later, he is frankly ...

Speaking to News Corp, Samuel said that he had a 'very specific reason' for the career switch. 'I call it going backwards to go forwards,' he said. 'I look back to what I liked before – beer ...

Raising funds and awareness for cancer research with Love Your Sister remains his life’s purpose — as the charity hits a $20m milestone — but Samuel Johnson is also embracing his childhood ...