Henry Hitchings
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Henry Hitchings (born 11 December 1974) is an author and critic. He read English at Christ Church, Oxford before researching his PhD at University College London. He has written for the Financial Times, the New Statesman, The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement, among many other publications.
In 2005 he published Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World [1], a biography of Samuel Johnson's epochal A Dictionary of the English Language (1755). The book is the first popular account of Johnson's magnum opus. Its American edition has the title Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary [2] and won the Modern Language Association's prize for the best work by an indepedent scholar in 2005. [3]
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