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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A True Story of Madness, Love, and the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester (1998)
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.
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