In the United States, he's best-known for excursions into the lore of the English language, in Mother Tongue and Made in America.
And that stuffed grizzly bear, looming seven feet high? Well, that's a gift from his wife, Cynthia - and also an apt tribute to Bryson's latest book.In his adoptive Britain, Bryson reached bestseller status with wiseacre travelogues that retraced earlier trips to the American heartland ( The Lost Continent), tourist Europe ( Neither Here Nor There) and the Britannia he loves ( Notes from a Small Island). Is that spilled coffee on his computer? Nope, it's a plastic novelty look-alike.
A family room by night, the space houses a pool table and a giant-screen TV.īut the room also boasts flagrant evidence of Bryson's curiosity, wanderlust and eccentricity: a collection of matchbooks photos rescued from junk shops an inflatable version of Munch's The Scream. On the coffee table lie books he's reading and sober magazines like the Economist. Bill Bryson's office in his spacious Hanover, N.H., home surely reflects this ex-expatriate's rich career: the shelves hold copies of his books on travel and the English language, and on the walls hang posters for those books.
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