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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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Simon Winchester

A paranoid schizophrenic, incarcerated in the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum for murder, Dr. W.C. Minor provided tens of thousands of quotations for use in the Oxford English Dictionary for its first publication in the nineteenth century.

Date of publication: 
1998