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's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language Samuel Johnson. Levenger Press, $0 (646pp) ISBN 978-1-929154-10-4.

This is the first known publication of some Latin verses written by Samuel Johnson on the last page of his Welsh Diary. The left column lists the dates of various historical events. The right column ...

Back in late 18th-century London, Samuel Johnson was known for many things. He was an accomplished poet, playwright, and essayist. He was a literary critic and author of A Dictionary of the ...

Samuel Johnson has taken to social media to urge his followers to help make the dreams of a woman suffering from Stage 4 terminal bowel cancer come true.. The Australian actor, 44, posted on ...

Warning: This story contains discussion of suicide. Actor and cancer campaigner Samuel Johnson can't remember the car crash that nearly killed him, but he has an unlikely name for it: "The good ...

"Johnson's father built the house in 1707 and Samuel was born in the house on 18 September, 1709 and spent the majority of his first 27 years in the house before leaving for London in 1737.