A comprehensive and accessible introduction, for students and general readers, to perhaps the most celebrated writer in British history.
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Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College, and has devoted most of his professional life to the study of Samuel Johnson. He is the author of three monographs on Johnson and the co-editor of three volumes, as well as the general editor of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, 23 vols. (1958–2018).
Dan Hitchens is a journalist and a senior editor at the First Things journal. He has written for publications including the Times, the Spectator and the Wall Street Journal.
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