The Life of Samuel Johnson Author:James Boswell Widely regarded as the finest literary biography ever published, James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson reveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities, and is the source of much of what we know about one of the towering figures of English literature. — This biography of Samuel Johnson, written by James Bosw... more »ell, was first published in 1791. This edition was first published in 1960, with this copy printed in 1969. It is edited by Edmund Fuller, with an introduction by Colin Bell and liberally illustrated with black and white etchings.« less