The surgeon of Crowthorne
Subtitle: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words
By: Simon Winchester.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Murray, James Augustus Henry, -- Sir, -- 1837-1915 -- Friends and associates; Minor, William Chester; Oxford English dictionary; New English dictionary on historical principles; Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography; Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography; English language -- Lexicography; English language -- Etymology; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: W.C. Minor was one of the keenest volunteers involved in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. What the OED's editor, James Murray, didn't realise was that he was also a millionaire American Civil War surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder.
Notes: American ed. published under title: The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary. New York : HarperCollins, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references.