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A Note About the Author

BILL BRYSON’s bestselling books include
A Walk in the Woods
,
I’m a Stranger Here Myself
,
In a Sunburned Country
,
A Short History of Nearly Everything
(which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize),
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
, and
At Home
. He lives in England with his wife.

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The Lost Continent
Mother Tongue
Neither Here nor There
Made in America
Notes from a Small Island
A Walk in the Woods
I’m a Stranger Here Myself
In a Sunburned Country
Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Bill Bryson’s African Diary
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors
At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Ruth Snyder, housewife, and her adulterous lover, Judd Gray, a corset salesman. Their inept “sash weight murder” of her husband, Albert Snyder, was the tabloid sensation of 1927; they were convicted in a lurid trial and sentenced to death
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