Bill Bryson's masterpiece, A Short History of Nearly Everything (Broadway Books, $27.50), brims with startling facts. It's a remarkable, lay-person history that compellingly takes us from the ...

Bill Bryson bestseller A Short History of Nearly Everything is being reimagined as an animated TV series by former The Simpsons showrunner Josh Weinstein and Paddington scribe Jason Hazeley ...

At the National Press Club, travel writer Bill Bryson discussed his book "A Short History of Nearly Everything". The book describes the sea… read more At the National Press Club, travel writer ...

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That's rather a lot to cover, of course, which is why the book is called A Short History of Nearly Everything." What transpires is a book about evolution, astronomy, the history of the universe ...