Join us for a discussion of The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
 by Simon Winchester.

The shocking story of the single greatest contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 reveals that the man who contributed some ten thousand definitions to the book was in fact a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane. 

Books will be available at the reference desk one month before the meeting.