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Boswell, James 1740-1795.  
British lawyer, diarist, and writer renowned as the biographer of Samuel Johnson.
Bos·well'i·an adj. & n.
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Boswell, James

An eighteenth-century Scottish author, best known for his Life of Samuel Johnson.

Note: Boswell has become a general term for a biographer: “James Joyce found his Boswell in Richard Ellmann.”
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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