The Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman

A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester

NBCC Nonfiction 1998 (awarded 1999) · Finalist

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Prize history

National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
1998 · awarded 1999

Finalist

National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction 1998 finalists

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Winner
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Ira Berlin
The Bible as It Was

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