Winchester, Simon. <br/><br/>
The Professor and the madman :  a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary 
Simon Winchester 
 - 1st HarperPerennial ed 
 - New York, NY :  HarperPerennial,  1999 
 - xiii, 242 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242) 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>006099486X (pbk.)  13.00 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir,  1837-1915 --Friends and associates.<br/>Minor, William Chester.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Oxford English dictionary.<br/>New English dictionary on historical principles.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychiatric hospital patients--Great Britain--Biography.<br/>Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism.<br/>Lexicographers--Great Britain--Biography.<br/>English language--Lexicography.<br/>English language--Etymology.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Veterans--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.