James Boswell
James Boswell (1740-95), Scottish biographer and diarist. A qualified lawyer, he met Samuel Johnson in 1763 and their friendship lasted until Johnson’s death in 1784. His poetry and plays are undistinguished, his major achievement being The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). His unpublished diaries, which are noted for their sexual frankness, were discovered in Ireland in the 1920s and 1930s.
“You have but two topics, yourself and me, and I’m sick of both. Samuel Johnson to James Boswell, in Boswell’s London Journal’”
