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Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He is also the subject of the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature: James Boswells Life of Samuel Johnson. After nine years of work, Johnsons A Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755; it had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been described as one of the greatest single achievements of schol