What is National Biographer’s Day?
Each 16th of May National Biographer's Day commemorates Samuel Johnson, an English writer, and his biographer James Boswell's first meeting in London, England, May 16, 1763. Dr. Johnson, a well-known playwright, poet, moralist, essayist, essayist, literary critic, editor, and lexicographer.
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Johnson, a biographer, was also a biographer.
The best biographers, according to Johnson, were those who ate, drank, and "lived in social intercourse" with those about whom they wrote. An Account of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers, which was published in 1744, if that were true, his best biography would be An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers.
James Boswell, a Scot, met Samuel Johnson at a bookshop near Covent Garden, according to the same statute. He appears in The Life of Johnson, the most celebrated English biography, nearly 30 years later.
