He returned to Europe the following year with a high school friend, the pseudonymous Stephen Katz (who later appears in Bryson's A Walk in the Woods). He was educated at Drake University but dropped out in 1972, deciding to instead backpack around Europe for four months. He has an older brother, Michael, and a sister, Mary Jane Elizabeth. In 2003 Bryson moved back to the UK, living in Norfolk, and was appointed Chancellor of Durham University.īill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of William and Mary Bryson. Born an American, he was a resident of North Yorkshire, UK, for most of his professional life before moving back to the US in 1995. William McGuire "Bill" Bryson is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on science.
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