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

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 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.

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 ...

In his own time, Johnson was best known as an essayist, literary critic and lexicographer. Peter Martin is well equipped for the job of editing this collection of Johnson’s writings on a variety of ...

Samuel Johnson has undergone a radical transformation in a heartfelt gesture to honour his late sister Connie who lost her battle with cancer in September 2017. The Australian actor, 47, shaved ...

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, ...

Yes, Johnson’s longtime muse and patroness, Hester Thrales, probably did chain the great man and whip him, but in Meyers’ calm hands, it’s simply another facet of the profound and lacerating ...

Samuel Johnson was named chief executive of Transportation Corridor Agencies in September 2020. Johnson, who had been serving as TCA’s interim CEO since April 2020, is the first Black person to ...

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 ...