![]() ![]() Other travel books include the massive bestseller Notes From a Small Island, which won the 2003 World Book Day National Poll to find the book which best represented modern England, followed by A Walk in the Woods (in which Stephen Katz, his travel companion from Neither Here Nor There, made a welcome reappearance), Notes From a Big Country, about the USA, and his exploits in and observations on Australia, Down Under, which went on to become the most-borrowed travel book of the Noughties. It was followed by Neither Here Nor There, an account of his first trip around Europe. In The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson's hilarious first travel book, he chronicled a trip in his mother's Chevy around small town America. Also in 2003, he was appointed a Commissioner for English Heritage. They returned from America to live in the UK in 2003 and settled in Norfolk. Bill lived with his English wife and their four young children in North Yorkshire, before moving the family to Hanover, New Hampshire in 1995. ![]() ![]() He left journalism in 1987 to concentrate on writing independently as a full time author. He moved to and settled in England in 1977, mainly working as a journalist, Bill became chief copy editor of the business section of The Times and then deputy national news editor of the business section of The Independent. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. Bill Bryson is the UK's biggest selling non-fiction author since official records began. ![]()
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