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biographer; boswell (usually capitalized; after James Boswell died 1795 Scottish lawyer and biographer; from the wealth of firsthand detail in Boswell's life (1791) of Samuel Johnson died 1784 English lexicographer, critic, and conversationalist; one who out of admiration or hero worship records in detail and usually contemporaneously the life, conversation, intimate moods, and personal relationships especially of a famous or otherwise significant contemporary; one who writes with love for and intimate knowledge of any subject; one who stays in almost constant attendance upon another out of great admiration or hero worship, often in a voluntarily servile position Taras) |
