About+the+author

=**Bill Bryson**=


 * B**ill Bryson, the author of my book, is a bestselling American who writes humoristic books about his travels around the world.


 * B**ryson was born on 8 December 1951 in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1972, at an age of twenty, he studied at Drake University, but he got tired of school and dropped out to explore the world. He decided to backpack around Europe for four months. Only one year after he came home from the trip, he returned to Europe with a high-school friend. At that time he had no idea that travelling would become a living for him in the future.


 * I**n 1973, Bryson first visited the United Kingdom during a Europe tour. He decided to stay after getting a job in a psychiatric hospital in a village with nearly five thousand in habitants. Here he met the love of his life, Cynthia, who he later married and today have four children with. They moved together to USA in 1975 so Bryson could complete college.


 * H**e finished in 1977, and they moved North Yorkshire in England where they stayed until 1995. Bryson had always liked to write, so he took the job as a journalist and the sub editor of the business section of “The Times”. When he returned to his birth country with his family, they lived in New Hampshire for some years. He moved a lot with his family, so in 2003 they returned to England again, this time near Wymondham, Norfolk, were he still lives today.


 * B**ryson has been awarded many prizes for his books. At The world Book day, voters from all the United Kingdom chose the book I have read, “Notes from a Small Island” as that which best sums up British identity and state of the nation. He has also won many other prestigious prizes, as for example the Aventis Price for best general science book with “A Short History of Nearly Everything”


 * T**oday Bryson has written over twenty works whereof nine of them are about his travels around the world, from “Visited 16 European Countries”, America, the UK, Australia and Africa. Outside his travel books he has written the famous books as “Shakespeare-The World as Stage” and “A Short History of Nearly Everything”.