The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary - Paperback

Winchester, Simon. The Surgeon of Crowthorne. First Folio Edition. London, Folio Society, 2014. Octavo. XXV, 199 pages. Original Hardcover in slipcase. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Simon Winchester, OBE (born 28 September 1944), is a British author and journalist who resides in Massachusetts, in the United States. Through his career at The Guardian, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. As an author, Winchester has written or contributed to more than a dozen nonfiction books, has written one novel, and his articles have appeared in several travel publications, including Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic. Winchester's first truly successful book was The Professor and the Madman (1998) published by Penguin UK as The Surgeon of Crowthorne. Telling the story of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, the book was a New York Times Best Seller, and the rights to a film version were optioned by Mel Gibson, likely to be directed by John Boorman. Though he still writes travel books, Winchester has used the narrative non-fiction form he adopted for The Professor and the Madman several more times, resulting in multiple best-selling books. The Map that Changed the World (2001) focuses on the geologist William Smith and was Winchester's second New York Times best seller. The year 2003 saw the publication of The Meaning of Everything, which returns to the topic of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, and of the best-selling Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded.Winchester then published A Crack in the Edge of the World, a book about San Francisco's 1906 earthquake. (Wikipedia).