022 oriental renaissance: innovative, educational, natural and social sciences scientific journal volume 2, issue issn 2181-1784 Impact Factor: 947 asi factor = 7

The Life of 
Samuel Johnson
 
covered the enti
rety of its subject’s life, from his birth to his status 
as England’s preeminent writer to his death. Boswell was a personal acquaintance of 
Johnson, so he was able to draw on voluminous amounts of personal conversations 

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Oriental Renaissance: Innovative, 
educational, natural and social sciences 
 
VOLUME 2 | ISSUE 5 
ISSN 2181-1784 
Scientific Journal Impact Factor
 
 SJIF 2022: 5.947 
Advanced Sciences Index Factor 
 ASI Factor = 1.7 
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the two shared. What also sets this biography apart is, because Boswell was a 
contemporary of Johnson, readers see Johnson in the context of his own time. He 
wasn’t some fabled figure that a biographer was writing about centuries later; he was 
someone to whom the author had access, and Boswell could see the real-world 
influence his subject had on life in the here and now. 
A Beautiful Mind
, 
by 
Sylvia Nasar
, 1998 Pulitzer Prize-nominated biography 
of mathem
atician John Nash introduced legions of readers to Nash’s remarkable life 
and genius. The book opens with Nash’s childhood and follows him through his 
education, career, personal life, and struggles with schizophrenia. It ends with his 
acceptance of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics. In addition to a Pulitzer 
nomination, 
A Beautiful Mind
 
won the National Book Critics Circle Award for 
Biography, was a 
New York Times 
bestseller, and provided the basis for the Academy 
Award-winning 2001 film of the same name.