The Surgeon of Crowthorne
1998 non-fiction history book by Simon Winchester / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"The Professor and the Madman" redirects here. For the film, see The Professor and the Madman (film).
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words is a non-fiction history book by British writer Simon Winchester, first published in England in 1998. It was retitled The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary in the United States and Canada.