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 ...

Samuel Johnson was living proof that a person can be extremely messy and disorganised but still do work of great worth. He compiled and almost single-handedly wrote an English dictionary that ...

"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.