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Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa on December 8, 1951. In 1973, he went backpacking in England, where he eventually decided to settle. He wrote for the English newspapers The Times and The Independent, as well as supplementing his income by writing travel articles. He moved back to the näytä lisää United States in 1995. His first travel book, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, was published in 1989. His other books include I'm a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, Made in America, The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson's African Diary, A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Walk About, and Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, the Genius of the Royal Society. A Walk in the Woods was adapted into a movie starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. Bryson's titles, The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain, Notes from a Small Island and Neither Here Nor There made the New York Times bestseller list in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Bill Bryson in 2018

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Tekijän teokset

Lyhyt historia lähes kaikesta (2003) 23,110 kappaletta
In a Sunburned Country (2000) 9,063 kappaletta
The Mother Tongue (1990) 7,731 kappaletta
Sisään! : lyhyt historia lähes kaikesta kotona (2010) — Kertoja, eräät painokset6,396 kappaletta
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (2007) — Tekijä — 4,790 kappaletta
One Summer: America, 1927 (2013) 2,912 kappaletta
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (2019) 2,823 kappaletta
Bill Bryson's African Diary (2002) 1,289 kappaletta
Lyhyt historia lähes kaikesta (2008) 617 kappaletta
Icons of England (2008) 324 kappaletta
The English Landscape: Its Character and Diversity (1700) — Johdanto — 76 kappaletta
Journeys in English (2004) 63 kappaletta
Bizarre World (1995) 63 kappaletta
The Secret History of Christmas (2022) 37 kappaletta
Blook of Bunders (1982) 14 kappaletta
Bryson Bill 2 kappaletta

Associated Works

The Ascent of Rum Doodle (1956) — Johdanto, eräät painokset576 kappaletta
Most of the Most of S. J. Perelman (1958) — Johdanto, eräät painokset513 kappaletta
Granta 26: Travel (1989) — Avustaja — 154 kappaletta
Granta 31: The General (1990) — Avustaja — 143 kappaletta
Granta 23: Home (1988) — Avustaja — 138 kappaletta
A Walk in the Woods [2015 film] (2015) — Original book by — 66 kappaletta
Coffee with Isaac Newton (2008) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset40 kappaletta
National Geographic Magazine 1992 v181 #4 April (1992) — Avustaja — 26 kappaletta
National Geographic Magazine 1996 v190 #5 November (1996) — Avustaja — 25 kappaletta
National Geographic Magazine 1998 v193 #6 June (1998) — Avustaja — 22 kappaletta
Licensed to Sell: The History and Heritage of the Public House (2004) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset17 kappaletta

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Virallinen nimi
Bryson, William McGuire
Syntymäaika
1951-12-08
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
VS
Syntymäpaikka
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Asuinpaikat
Des Moines, Iowa, VS
Koulutus
Drake University
Ammatit
journalist
travel writer
non-fiction author
Suhteet
Bryson, Michael G. (brother)
Bryson, Bill, Sr. (father)
Organisaatiot
Campaign to Protect Rural England
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Chancellor of Durham University (2005)
Order of the British Empire (2006)
Golden Eagle Award (2007)
Fellow of the Royal Society (2013)
Agentti
Jed Mattes
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. A backpacking expedition in 1973 brought him to England where he met his wife and decided to settle. He wrote for the English newspapers The Times and The Independent for many years, writing travel articles to supplement his income. He lived with his family in North Yorkshire before moving back to the States in 1995, to Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and four children. In 2003 he and his family moved back to England, where they currently reside.

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Classic Bill Bryson at his most tangentially fascinating. I've been reading this gradually for about nine months and it's always a joy to pick up. Biggest downside is somewhat unexamined decision to focus on history of the western Europe and the US, but a book has to set boundaries somewhere....
 
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caedocyon | 261 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 18, 2024 |
Uno de los mejores libros que he leido, cuenta de forma muy fácil y cómica la historia de la ciencia, como si fuera una novela.
Mi frase favorita "Resulta un tanto fascinante pensar que si tú mismo te fueses deshacienco con una pinzas, átomo a átomo, lo que producirías sería un montón de fino polvo, nada del cual habría estado nunca vivo pero todo él habrías sido en otro tiempo tú"
 
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kiwi452 | 397 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 14, 2024 |
This was an interesting read. They did a good job of representing the various sciences, including mathematics and engineering, whcih are often underrepresented. I felt it was a bit heavy on theoretical physicists, but that is probably just my own preference for biology. The look ahead was almost as interesting, if a bit more frightening, then the look back

 
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cspiwak | 16 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 6, 2024 |
An overview of a summer that seems to have been jam packed with interesting people and significant events. Bryson is an always engaging writer, though he seems a bit curmudgeonly in this book. While one expects criticism of Ford who was sometimes anti-Semitic and Lindbergh , who admired the Nazi party-one would think he would have good things to say about Lou Gehrig-but he refers to him as being "almost without a personality." Luckily-the same cannot be said about this book.
 
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cspiwak | 151 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 6, 2024 |

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