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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]
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Bryson was born on December 8, 1951. He spent his childhood growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, part of the baby-boom generation born in the post-war years. He describes his early life and his parents, Bill Sr. and Mary Bryson. His father was a well-known sports writer for The Des Moines Register, the leading newspaper in Des Moines.
William Eugene Bryson Sr. (March 3, 1915 – January 31, 1986) was an American sportswriter who wrote for The Des Moines Register from 1937 until his retirement, in 1978. He covered 32 consecutive World Series .
First edition (Secker and Warburg)The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America is a book by travel writer Bill Bryson, chronicling his 13,978-mile (22,495-km) trip around the United States in the autumn of 1987 and spring 1988.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by American-British author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject. It was one of the bestselling popular science books of 2005 in the United Kingdom ...
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island is a humorous travel book by American author Bill Bryson, first published in 2015.. Twenty years after the publication of Notes from a Small Island (1995), Bryson makes another journey around Great Britain to see what has changed.
More details about John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death are coming to light.In an interview with ET's Rachel Smith, biographers RoseMarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil revisited the tragic day Kennedy, his wife ...