The Surgeon of Crowthorne
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words is a book by Simon Winchester.It tells the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary and one of its most prolific early contributors, Dr. William Chester Minor. A retired American military surgeon, Minor was at the time imprisoned in the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, near the small town of Crowthorne in Berkshire.
The American edition is called The Professor and the Madman (ISBN 006099486X).
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