[DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #2981, aired 1997-07-14 [PAR] This man's wife, the former Claudia Alta Taylor, was the mother of Lynda Bird & 
Luci Baines .... 1954's winner was this man's book "The Spirit of St. Louis" ... 
Walter Jackson Bate, not James Boswell, won in 1978 for a biography on this 
man... [DOC] [TLE] Samuel Johnson: W. Jackson Bate: 9780701122997: Amazon.com ... [PAR] Samuel Johnson [W. Jackson Bate] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on 
qualifying ... Samuel Johnson Hardcover  May 11, 1978. by W. Jackson Bate (
Author). [DOC] [TLE] THE LITERARY VIEW - The New York Times [PAR] Feb 26, 1978 ... February 26, 1978, Page 1 The New York Times Archives. WALTER JACKSON 
BATE'S biography of Samuel Johnson appeared on nearly ... it was by far the 
most popular book of the year, and it went on to win the N.B.C.C.'s ... He notes 
that Boswell's life contains only part of the man, the Johnson of legend. [DOC] [TLE] Walter Jackson Bate - The New York Times [PAR] Jul 28, 1999 ... Walter Jackson Bate, noted English professor and biographer, dies at age 81; 
photo (M) ... in 1978 for his biography of Johnson, England's contradictory man of 
letters ... The book went on to win the National Book Award and the National ... 
Comparing Mr. Bate's biography to James Boswell's definitive 1791... [DOC] [TLE] CELEBRATING JOHNSON'S BICENTENNIAL - NYTimes.com [PAR] Sep 24, 1984 ... Walter Jackson Bate. ... Professor Bate, whose course at Harvard on ''The Age of 
Johnson'' ... Johnson's Toryism is traditionally recalled through Boswell's own 
very ... died in 1978 after completing his biography of Johnson's middle years. ... 
Yale is not only the scene of a new scholarly edition of Johnson's... [DOC] [TLE] Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate  Reviews, Discussion ... [PAR] Adam said: I'd say this is the best Johnson biography of them all. Better even than 
Boswell's, this not on... ... W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson has been hailed as 
a supreme example of the ... 61st out of 97 books  157 voters ... Brutally honest 
with himself and shedding all illusion about his fellow man, he fought through... [DOC] [TLE] Samuel Johnson - Wikipedia [PAR] Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September]  13 December 1784), 
often referred ... He is also the subject of perhaps the most famous biography in 
English ... Boswell's Life, along with other biographies, documented Johnson's 
..... in the words of the biographer and critic Walter Jackson Bate, "remains one of
... [DOC] [TLE] 'Bate the Great,' biographer of renown - The Pulitzer Prizes [PAR] In his college reunion update in 1977, Walter Jackson Jack Bate remarked that 
writing, ... in the words and quirks of Johnson, James Boswell and Hester Thrale. 
... The Pulitzer Prize Board was well served by its 1978 jury in the Biography or ... 
(Oxford voted to award Franklin the doctor of civil law in 1762; it did not so honor
... [DOC] [TLE] Life of Samuel Johnson - Wikiwand [PAR] The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell ... On 
16 May 1763, Johnson met 22-year-old Boswell, the man who would later 
become his first major biographer, for the first time in the book shop of Johnson's 
friend, ... that Boswell's work is wrong or of no use: scholars such as Walter 
Jackson Bate... [DOC] [TLE] Demons and Dictionaries - The Atlantic [PAR] A new book dissects Dr. Johnson's pathologies and despair. ... system, he 
bethought himself of the good doctor as a man who might be persuaded to 
intercede for him. ... Having been disappointed by the failure of Walter Jackson 
Bate to tell this ... The urge felt by so many of Johnson's contemporariesnot 
James Boswell... [DOC] [TLE] Democrat and Chronicle from Rochester, New York  Page 75 [PAR] January 29, 1978 ... But her object is; not to

Question: The winning book of 1978 was a bio of this man by W. Jackson Bate, not Boswell
Answer: (Samuel) Johnson