Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate — book cover

Samuel Johnson

by W. Jackson Bate

National Book · 1978 · WinnerPulitzer Prize · 1978 · WinnerNational Book · 1977 · Winner

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Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Award for Nonfiction	1978	Winner
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography	1978	Winner
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction	1977	Winner

About the Author

W. Jackson BateAmerican

Walter Jackson Bate (1918-1999) was an American literary scholar, critic, and biographer best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of John Keats (1963) and Samuel Johnson (1977), the latter also receiving the National Book Award. Society.

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