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THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN – Review by Martha K Baker

January 8, 2021January 10, 2021 Martha K. Baker Farhad Safinia, John Boorman, mel gibson'sean penn'the professor and the madman, oxford english dictionary, simon winchester

Simon Winchester published The Surgeon of Crowthorne in 1998. Mel Gibson optioned it. Then, it was published in the United States as The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. After 19 years, including three for legal wrangles, Winchester’s well-written book evolved into a mess of a movie.