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Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson

English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)

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About Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The work for which he is best known is his 42,733-entry Dictionary of the English Language (1755). For this and other contributions in and to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has called him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".

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Occupation: lexicographer, linguist, poet, literary historian
Citizenship: Kingdom of Great Britain
Born: September 18, 1709
Died: December 13, 1784

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