Bill Bryson Biography

Bill Bryson is a best-selling author whose books have sold more than 15 million copies and been translated into more than 30 languages. His science book A Short History of Nearly Everything won the 2004 Aventis Prize of the Royal Society and the Descartes Prize the European Union’s highest literary award. His other books include A Walk in the Woods The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid At Home: A Short History of Private Life and the biography William Shakespeare: The World as Stage. His latest book (published February 2016) The Road to Little Dribbling examines his longstanding affection for Great Britain. In the fall of 2015 A Walk in the Woods was released as a movie starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte.
Bryson was Chancellor of the University of Durham England’s third oldest university from 2005-11 and for four years was on the board of directors of English Heritage the British government body responsible for England’s historic environment. From 2006 to 2012 he was president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England one of Britain’s oldest conservation organizations.
In 2006 he was awarded an honorary OBE (Order of the British Empire) by the British government and the President’s Prize by Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2007 the Museum of Science in Boston Massachusetts gave him its annual Bradford Washburn Award its highest award for contributions to the popularization of science and in 2009 he was made an honorary fellow of the Kavli Institute of Particle Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is an honorary fellow of the British Science Association and of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was editor of the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary book Seeing Further. Since 2008 the Royal Society of Chemistry has had an annual Bill Bryson Prize for the best school science project. In 2012 he received the Kenneth B. Myer Award from the Florey Institute of Neuroscience in Melbourne Australia.

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