A short history of nearly everything

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bill Bryson is the author of numerous works of travel literature. In addition to his bestselling books for Broadway, including A Walk in the Woods, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, and Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, he is the author of Mother Tongue, The Lost Continent, Notes from a Small Island, and Neither Here Nor There. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife, Cynthia, and their children.