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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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, 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 ...