- Born
- Birth nameWilliam McGuire Bryson
- Height5′ 9¾″ (1.77 m)
- Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1951. He settled in England in 1977 and lived in North Yorkshire for almost two decades. He now lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. His travel books are "The Lost Continent", "Neither Here Nor There", "Notes From a Small Island", "A Walk in the Woods", "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" (aka "Notes From a Big Country") and "Bill Bryson in a Sunburned Country" (aka "Down Under"). His books on the English language are "Mother Tongue" and "Made in America".
- IMDb mini biography by: paulbalsillie@hotmail.com
- SpouseCynthia Billen(1975 - present) (4 children)
- Got to know his wife Cynthia in a psychiatric hospital, where he landed a job and she worked as a nurse.
- To date (2010), has sold more non-fiction books in the UK than any other author.
- Following the death of Peter Ustinov, was appointed the new chancellor of the University of Durham.
- When his book "Notes From a Small Island" was serialized on BBC Radio 4, the narrator was Kerry Shale.
- His most successful books include "The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way" (1990), "A Short History of Nearly Everything" (2003) and "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" (2006).
- It occurred to me that the British might have more heritage than is good for them.
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