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Samuel Johnson

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Profession
Non-Fiction Author
Died
Dec 13, 1784
Zodiac
Virgo
Born in
England
About
Remembered for his biographies, literary criticism, essays, reference works, and poems, this significant eighteenth-century English writer is most well known for his 1755 work A Dictionary of the English Language and his 1765 annotated version of The Plays of William Shakespeare.
Family
The son of Sarah Ford and bookseller Michael Johnson, he spent his youth in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. In 1735, he married Elizabeth "Tetty" Jervis Porter, a widow twenty years his senior.

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