Frederick A. Pottle
Contributor
LOCATION: New Haven, CT, United States
Sterling Professor of English, Yale University, 1944–66. Author of James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740–1769; The Literary Career of James Boswell; and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
James Boswell was a friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson (Life of Johnson, 2 vol., 1791). The 20th-century publication of his journals proved him to be also one of the world’s greatest diarists. Boswell’s father, Alexander Boswell, advocate and laird of Auchinleck in Ayrshire from 1749, was…
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