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Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson

American-British author (born 1951)

William McGuire Bryson is an American journalist and author who was naturalized as a British citizen in 2014.

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In a Sunburned Country

By Bill Bryson

Biographies and Memoirs

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned…

The Body

By Bill Bryson

Nonfiction

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A must-read owner’s manual for every body. Take a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body in this “delightful, anecdote-propelled read” (The Boston Globe) from the author of A Short History of…

A Walk in the Woods

By Bill Bryson

General Nonfiction

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body “The best way of…