CNA Lifestyle caught up with American author Bill Bryson, whose live performances in Singapore on Feb 4 and 5 are part of his ...

Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything has sold millions of copies since its initial publication in 2003, but a ...

Author Bill Bryson is known for exploring far-flung places: His previous books cover the Australian outback and the Appalachian Trail -- and even the history of the universe. But the author of A Short ...

Feb. 20—Bill Bryson has a way with words. Whether it's about heavenly bodies or the body we walk around in or the world we send our bodies through, Bryson can explain things in a way that's easy to ...

AMES, Iowa — Beloved on both sides of the pond for his writing, which is impossible to dislike, Iowa's own Bill Bryson will speak at Iowa State University. Bryson's talk, "At Home and Abroad," will be ...

Consequently, the memoir that propelled Bryson from a gigging travel writer to a bestselling author, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, almost wasn’t written. His ...

Bill Bryson has said of his origins, “I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.” In 1973 he settled in England and wrote travel articles for the English newspapers The Times and The Independent. In ...

LONDON (AP) -- Author Bill Bryson, the Iowan whose wry travel writing includes an affectionate look at Britain, received an honorary Order of the British Empire, or OBE, from the government Wednesday.

The words "boxed set," like "leather interior" and "estate bottled," are strangely agreeable. They smack of the good life: opulence, sophistication and celebration. What is more, in an increasingly ...

David Balton and Jane Stewart take us for a ride on la strada. Molto bene! By Caitlin Lovinger Philip D’Anieri’s “Appalachian Trail” chronicles the people who created the legendary footpath and its ...