He left journalism in 1987, three years after the birth of his third child. Living in North Yorkshire and working primarily as a journalist, Bryson eventually became chief copy editor of the business section of The Times, and then deputy national news editor of the business section of The Independent. In 1977 they moved back to the UK where they remained until 1995. After marring, the couple moved to the US, in 1975, so Bryson could complete his college degree. Staying in the UK, Bryson landed a job working in a psychiatric hospital-the now defunct Holloway Sanatorium in Virginia Water in Surrey. Some of Bryson's experiences from this European trip are included as flashbacks in a book about a similar excursion written 20 years later, Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe. He returned to Europe the following year with a high school friend, the pseudonymous Stephen Katz (who later appears in Bryson's A Walk in the Woods).
He was educated at Drake University but dropped out in 1972, deciding to instead backpack around Europe for four months. He has an older brother, Michael, and a sister, Mary Jane Elizabeth. In 2003 Bryson moved back to the UK, living in Norfolk, and was appointed Chancellor of Durham University.īill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of William and Mary Bryson. Born an American, he was a resident of North Yorkshire, UK, for most of his professional life before moving back to the US in 1995. William McGuire "Bill" Bryson is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on science.
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