Boswell
Americannoun
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James, 1740–95, Scottish author: biographer of Samuel Johnson.
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any devoted biographer of a specific person.
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And I know there’s no James Boswell coming to write my biography.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Boswell is a “pudgy intelligent owl,” while the countess “shook hands firmly, like a queen.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
He thinks of himself as the investigator’s Boswell, but “it was just my luck to be the only biographer in the world whose subject was determined not to tell me anything about himself.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
"I don't really see a humanitarian truce working," says Boswell.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
She was about to remind me of it but I said Boswell aloud, very slowly as if in a recital or bee.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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