Bill Bryson — Author, Journalist, Science Writer
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Bill Bryson, Author, Journalist, Science Writer from the United States

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Author, Journalist, Science Writer

Bill Bryson was author, journalist, science writer from the United States

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Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result, eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly, in you.
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From A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003), Chapter 30. Bryson's summary of the statistical impossibility of any individual's existence.

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Bryson has sold over 16 million books worldwide. He was Chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011 and holds an honorary OBE. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. His books are translated into dozens of languages. In October 2020, he announced retirement. He lives in Hampshire, England, with his wife and four children.

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