Lexicographers

The Life of Samuel Johnson (Penguin Classics)

Boswell, James

The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Simon Winchester.

The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

by James Boswell, esq

Dr. Johnson's table-talk: containing aphorisms on literature, life, and manners; with anecdotes of distinguished persons

selected and arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson.

The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

by Sir John Hawkins.

The personal history of Samuel Johnson

Christopher Hibbert, Henry Hitchings

Liar's Dictionary: A Novel

Eley Williams

Life of Samuel Johnson

Boswell, James, Samuel Johnson, Lawrence Fitzroy Powell

Samuel Johnson.

Sir Leslie Stephen

The surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words

Simon Winchester.