Samuel Johnson (who shares a name but no relations with the 18th-century English prose stylist) owes much of his charm to his upbringing.

Samuel Johnson, 76, a Wisconsin entrepreneur and philanthropist who amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune while chairman of S.C. Johnson & Son Inc., a leading maker of bug sprays, household ...

Samuel Johnson has been appointed CEO of Orange County's Transportation Corridor Agency. The fiscally-responsible industry leader is the first Black person to hold the position.

Today marks the 304th anniversary of Samuel Johnson's birth. This piece, originally published in The New Republic, explains how Johnson's life, the subject of perhaps the most famous biography in ...

Johnson got to spend a year at Oxford, after he came into a small legacy, but the money wasn’t enough to keep him there until he could earn a degree. He spent his 20s trying, and largely failing ...

Samuel Johnson has revealed the real reason behind his recent shock career change That is when inspiration struck, with Samuel revealing the gig was a perfect deterrent from staying up too late.

James Boswell is a hard act to follow. His Life of Johnson, written at close range after more hours in pubs and miles of travel with his eccentric subject than most could have withstood, is detailed, ...

Mr. Keizer is an author and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine and Virginia Quarterly Review. If resolution makers wanted a patron saint, they could do worse than Samuel Johnson (1709 to ...

Johnson spent nine years compiling his dictionary before it was published in 1755. Today’s Google doodle celebrates the British writer, Samuel Johnson, on his 308th birthday.

Jack Lynch talked about the book he edited, "Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language". Mr. Lynch argued that Johnson's dictionary is one of the ...

Johnson, his biographer assures us, was a Transcendentalist by nature. “ He instinctively sought truths by direct vision, not by processes of induction. . . .