Story of Ain't

“It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper….David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection.”

—Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman

The captivating, delightful, and surprising story of Merriam Webster’s Third Edi...