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Your New Computer Biographical Barnes and Noble offers a Meet the Writers page on Bill Bryson, featuring a biography, a chronological bibliography, and more. Click on the biography link to read more about the author's life.http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?cid=1190291 In this interview for Salon.com's Wanderlust section, Bryson answers Don George's questions about being a travel writer--particularly his experience hiking the Appalachian Trail and then writing about it in A Walk in the Woods. http://www.salon.com/wlust/feature/1998/05/20feature.html Listen to Bryson discuss his childhood memoir, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, on NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6394288Cultural Computer Stupidities is a website devoted to chronicling humorous stories of computer misuse; unlike in Bryson's piece, these jokes are on the users. http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ 404 Error. Bitmap. DNS. dpi. Decode commonly used tech terms, jargon, and abbreviations with help from Jon Storm's glossary. http://www.jonstorm.com/glossary/Bibliographical Watch an animated preview of Bryson's most recent book, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and hear a 4 ½ minute excerpt read aloud. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NgQZ0dnZH9AOr read an excerpt from another section of the same book. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/bb_title/display.pperl?isbn=9780767919364&view=excerpt Bryson's official website, hosted by Random House, includes a brief biography and bibliography of the writer's works. Click on any of the book covers to learn more about them. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/flat/about.php At Library Thing, see Bryson's complete bibliography and read—or even join—discussions about his various books. http://www.librarything.com/author/brysonbill |