Bill Bryson

Person · Open Library

Born

8 December 1951

Works

74

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1951

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Listeners

9,048

Total plays

354,030

William 'Bill' McGuire Bryson (born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on scientific subjects. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bill+Bryson">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 22,639x

2. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 13,261x

3. The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 9,003x

4. Toward defining the preclinical stages of Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 6,009x

5. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

   · 2017 · cited 5,477x

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Quotes

• “I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”
• “When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a girl called Bobbi and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can't wait to get out and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbi and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever.”
• “My father liked Iowa. He lived his whole life in the state, and is even now working his way through eternity there, in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines.”
• “I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.”
• “I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope.”
• “I watched a rerun on television of a 1960s comedy programme called "Mr Ed", which was about a talking horse. Judging by the quality of the jokes, I would guess that Mr Ed wrote his own material.”

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Key facts

Vice chancellor

Kenneth Calman Chris Higgins

Preceded by

Peter Ustinov

Succeeded by

Thomas Allen

Born

William McGuire Bryson , ( 1951-12-08 ) 8 December 1951 (age 74) , Des Moines, Iowa , U.S.

Citizenship

United States, United Kingdom

Spouse

Cynthia Billen ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1975 ) ​

Alma mater

Drake University ( BA )

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Official website

Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He is the author of eighteen books and holds the record of having the most bestsellers of any author on the Sunday Times bestseller list in the last fifty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything, first published in 2003, spent 106 weeks in the chart, won both the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize and is the biggest-selling popular science book of the twenty-first century. Bill Bryson is a former Chancellor of Durham University and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England.

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.penguin.co.uk/authors/101/1017933/bill-bryson.html

Image

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