num_pages: 260
description: A critically acclaimed biographer reconstructs the unusual friendship of eighteenth-century poet, playwright, and convicted murderer Richard Savage with a young, unknown, provincial schoolmaster, Samuel Johnson. 10,000 first printing.
language: English
title: DR. JOHNSON & MR. SAVAGE
titlecomplete: DR. JOHNSON & MR. SAVAGE
genres: Georgian, 18th Century, Nonfiction, Poetry, History, Biography Memoir, British Literature, Biography
ratings_count: 158
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Biography
publisher: Pantheon