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During his stay in Berlin in 1764, Boswell lived in the house of Karl David Kircheisen, the president of the Berlin city council.

Biographies

James Boswell mentioned thousands of people in his extensive journals and other writings. Read about an ever increasing number of those people, and about their relationship with Boswell, in our biographies section.

Literature

In our literature section you can read about the numerous books published by Boswell in his own lifetime, and about more than 40 other books about or related to Boswell published since his death in 1795.

The inaugural Boswell Book Festival

Submitted by thf1977 on Apr 02, 2011

The Boswell Museum and Mausoleum Trust has announced the inaugural Boswell Book Festival which is to take place on the grounds of Auchinleck House on May 20 - 22, 2011.

The festival will feature talks by internationally reknowned experts in the fields of diary and biography, most notably Dr. Gordon Turnbull, who has been General Editor of the Private Papers of James Boswell at Yale University since 1997.

Among other speakers that has been announced are Diana Athill, OBE and biographer Selina Hastings.

The festival is managed by the Boswell Museum and Mausoleum Trust, which was founded in 2010 with the aim of restoring the Boswell Mausoleum in Auchinleck churchyard and to create the first museum anywhere to celebrate the life and work of James Boswell.