[Ads-l] another non-fiction novel

[Ben Zimmer]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/02/mel-gibson-sean-penn-oed-creators-professor-madman
Mel Gibson and Sean Penn to play creators of Oxford English Dictionary
Based on the bestselling novel, Professor and the Madman will star the
Oscar-winners as two obsessive men who worked together in the 19th century.

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(I'm too stunned by this news to comment on anything other than the use of
the word "novel" for Simon Winchester's non-fiction book "The Professor and
the Madman," published in the UK as "The Surgeon of Crowthorne.")

--bgz

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