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Royal Society. "Author Bill Bryson to receive honorary degree from UI". Retrieved 4 July 2011.
Bryson has written a number of nonfiction books on topics including travel, the English language, and science. In 2022, he recorded an audiobook for Audible, The Secret History of Christmas.[6] He has sold over 16 million books worldwide.[7][8]
Early life and education
Bryson was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of Bill Bryson Sr., a sports journalist who worked for 50 years at The Des Moines Register, and Agnes Mary (née McGuire), the home furnishings editor at the same newspaper.[9][10] His mother was of Irish descent.[11] He had an older brother, Michael (1942–2012), and a sister, Mary Jane Elizabeth.
London.
Bryson first visited Britain in 1973 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. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
Retrieved 31 January 2020.
The New York Times. Retrieved 12 February 2018.