The Meaning of Everything

“teeming with knowledge and alive with insights. Winchester handles humor and awe with modesty and cunning. His prose is supremely readable.” - New York Times Book Review”exuberant, serious, funny, short, full, entrancingly readable” - Jane Gardam, Spectator”compelling reading. Winchester is excellent on the theory and practice of lexicography” - Sunday Times”Irresistible” - The Independent”Simon Winchester’s book is a fascinating catalogue of political wrangles, logistical conundrums and personal battles that underlay the work’s creation. This book is a delightful curiosity” - Zoe Green, Daily Telegraph”Simon Winchester has told this story with a touch of human drama and with a true sense of the social history that surrounded the enterprise.” - Stephen Wade, Contemporary Review”A lively and largely informative chronicle of a still-staggering enterprise” - Helen Zaltzman, Observer

Simon Winchester, OBE, is a British writer, journalist, and broadcaster. As a journalist he covered major events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. He is the author of Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (2010), The Professor and the Madman (1999), The Map that Changed the World (2001), and A Crack in the Edge of the World (2005), all of which have been New York Times bestsellers.