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By Mary Foster / The Bulletin
November 22, 2009
“Samuel Johnson: A Life” by David Nokes (Henry Holt and Company, 432 pgs., $30)
David Nokes, a prominent scholar of 18th-century English literature, takes a fresh look at Samuel Johnson, the man known as the creator of the dictionary. In doing so, Nokes shows a very human side of Johnson, and....