James Boswell

Description: (Best Known for His Biography of His Friend and Older Contemporary the English Writer 'Samuel Johnson')
Best known for his biography of his friend Samuel Johnson, 18th-century biographer and diarist James Boswell was also a qualified lawyer. Know for his reckless lifestyle and his trysts with prostitutes, he had contracted gonorrhea and had also fathered many children, including two illegitimate ones.

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Birthday October 29, 1740 (Scorpio)
Born In Edinburgh, Scotland
Died on May 19, 1795
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