Atlas Books, $19.95In 196 engaging pages, Bill Bryson accomplishes quite a bit. He clearly delineates what can be known from the small amount of documentation about William Shakespeare and what has ...

Bill Bryson sounds very British to American ears. Not in a fake Madonna sort of way. It's more like he was raised in some unknown country between the United States and the United Kingdom, where people ...

According to Bill Bryson, “The amount of Shakespearean ink, grossly measured, is almost ludicrous. … The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., contains about seven thousand works on ...

Bill Bryson is beloved for his travel writing, but his new book takes us not to Australia or to Europe or to Iowa, but on a journey inside our own bodies. And it's called — naturally — The Body.

Uncommonly perceptive, wickedly funny, cynical about all the right things -- Bill Bryson should be declared a national treasure, but which nation? The author of "A Walk in the Woods," "In a Sunburned ...

No one can fault Bill Bryson for lack of ambition. He has written tales of travel on four continents, a biography of Shakespeare, a history of the English language and, in the modestly titled “A Short ...

In the modern, digital age in which one is routinely notified of “memories” via online apps, it can feel like real, physical memories — ones that can be touched, held — are few and far between.

Who: Best-selling American-British journalist and author Bill Bryson, 73, has written 21 non-fiction books, including the popular science title A Short History Of Nearly Everything (2003) and Notes ...

When I was a teenager, I had an argument with a close friend about Bill Bryson. Both of us were competitive debaters, which meant we actively sought out sweeping, magisterial works like A Short ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Bill Bryson is an Author with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1996 Speech. The year with the most videos was 2003 with two videos. The year ...