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The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.

About the author (1999)

Simon Winchester has written works based on his travels through Africa, India and Hong Kong, including The River at the Center of the World (1996), about his trip along the Yangtze River. He has also written The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and served as the Asia-Pacific editor for Conde Nast Traveler. He lives in Massachusetts and in the Western Isles of Scotland.

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Title	The surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
Author	Simon Winchester
Edition	reprint
Publisher	Penguin, 1999
ISBN	0140271287, 9780140271287
Length	207 pages
Subjects	Language Arts & Disciplines › Linguistics › General Encyclopedias and dictionaries English language English language - Etymology English language - Lexicography - History - 19th century Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General Lexicographers Lexicographers - Great Britain Minor, William Chester Murray, James Augustus Henry Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915 New English dictionary on historical principles Oxford English dictionary Psychiatric hospital patients Psychiatric hospital patients - Great Britain United States United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Veterans

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