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A sparkling account of the writing of one of the most celebrated biographies of all time – ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ – and an account of the friendship that blossomed between writer and his subject.

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9780008840112

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Adam Sisman is a writer specialising in biography, who has written the lives of A. J. P. Taylor, Hugh Trevor-Roper and John le Carre. His second book, Boswell's Presumptuous Task, won a National Books Critics Circle award. 'Mr Sisman has an ideal biographical style: inquisitive and open, serious yet not severe,' Dwight Garner wrote in the New York Times, 'I'd read him on anyone.' Sisman has also edited several volumes of letters, including two volumes of letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor. In 2019 he published a short book about a con man, The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews.

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