On the day before the 300th anniversary of Samuel Johnson’s birth, Jeffrey Meyers will deliver a lecture focusing on the author’s friendships with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith.

Jeffrey Meyers graduated from the University of Michigan and received his doctorate from UC Berkeley in the 1960s. He is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. Mr. Meyers is the author of over 47 books, among them biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Co-sponsored by the Department of English.