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Bill Bryson
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Bill Bryson is an American-born journalist and author known for popular narrative non-fiction on travel, language and science, later naturalized as a British citizen.
Biography
William McGuire Bryson (born 8 December 1951) is an American journalist and author who was naturalized as a British citizen in 2014. He moved to Britain in his twenties and lived there for most of his adult life, though he periodically returned to the United States, notably residing in the U.S. between 1995 and 2003. He served as chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011.
Bryson has written nonfiction on topics including travel, the English language and science. Notable books include Notes from a Small Island (1995) and A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003). He retired from writing books in October 2020, has sold over 16 million books worldwide, and recorded an audiobook, The Secret History of Christmas, in 2022.
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Books by Bill Bryson
One Summer
One Summer (2013) recounts the summer of 1927 in the United States, describing events such as Charles Lindbergh’s rise to fame, the birth of talking pictures and television’s invention, the Mississippi flood, Al Capone’s peak, and other defining moments when America "came of age."