Other Photos Add photo. Connections Add photo. William McGuire "Bill" Bryson born December 8, is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on science. Born an American, he was a resident of Britain for most of his adult life before returning to the US in In Bryson moved back to Britain, living in the old rectory of Wramplingham, Norfolk, and was appointed Chancellor of Durham University.
His mother was of Irish stock. He has an older brother, Michael and a sister, Mary Jane Elizabeth. Bryson attended Drake University for two years before dropping out in , deciding to instead backpack around Europe for four months.
He returned to Europe the following year with a high school friend, the pseudonymous Stephen Katz. Some of his experiences from this trip are relived as flashbacks in Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe, which documents a similar journey Bryson made twenty years later. Bryson first visited Britain in during a tour of Europe and decided to stay after landing a job working in a psychiatric hospital — the now defunct Holloway Sanatorium in Virginia Water, Surrey. He met a nurse there named Cynthia, whom he married and they moved to the USA in so that Bryson could complete his college degree.
Bill also expresses concerns on the British assumption that everything was ordered by a number and failing to understand the meaning of counterpane, which the people assumed to be associated with a window.
At that, time there was a popular brand, Embassy Regal Number 1. In British English, asking for twenty cigarettes means a packet and not twenty of them.
At first, Bill Bryson explains his curiosity about Appalachian Trail that is near his house. With his friend Stephen, they start hiking the trail in the south, from Georgia State.
They stubble in the beginning because. At this point, they are not used to their equipment. Bryson realizes that it is even more difficult to travel with his friend, an overweight and crude recovering alcoholic, who seemed unprepared for the ordeal.
They come into shock when they get to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and realize that they have barely begun. Bryson had seemed that they had already hiked a large distance, but conversely the whole endeavor was too much for the two friends.
They choose to begin again in Roanoke, Virginia, after skipping a huge section of the trail. After nearly 1, Km Miles of hiking the hiking section ends; Bryson goes on a book tour and Katz returns to Des Moines to work.
Bryson continue to hike in the following months and visits several places. The links beside each book title will take you to Amazon where you can read more about the book, or purchase it.
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Homepage Characters Authors. Bill Bryson Books In Order. Icons of England Amazon. Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words Amazon. The Palace Under the Alps Amazon. In Bryson claimed copyright on an interview he had given nearly 20 years previously, after the interviewer republished it as an word e-book.
Amazon removed the e-book from publication, but the claim was controversial as interviews are generally considered to be the creative work of the interviewer. In Bryson was appointed chancellor of Durham University, succeeding the late Sir Peter Ustinov , and became more active with student activities than is common for holders of that post, even appearing in a Durham student film and promoting litter picks in the city.
He had praised Durham as "a perfect little city" in Notes from a Small Island. In October , it was announced that Bryson would step down at the end of His first area of focus in this role was the establishment of an anti-littering campaign across England. Bryson has received numerous awards for his ability to communicate science with passion and enthusiasm. In , the book won the EU Descartes Prize for science communication.
In he received the President's Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry for advancing the cause of the chemical sciences. In , he received the Kenneth B. The competition engages students from around the world in explaining science to non-experts. After he received British citizenship his OBE was made substantive.
On 22 November , Durham University officially renamed the Main Library the Bill Bryson Library for his contributions as the university's 11th chancellor — His biography at the Society reads:. Bill Bryson is a popular author who is driven by a deep curiosity for the world we live in.
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