Neither Here Nor There:

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. Life took him to England where he lived for many years, before moving with his wife and four children to the United States, a move that was not permanent, as he returned to the United Kingdom. Known for his travel books, humorous and touching, such as Chronicles of a Small Islandand for its international success A Brief History of Almost Everything (2005) – won the Aventis Prize, the Descartes Prize and was the best-selling non-fiction book of that decade in the United Kingdom – Bryson is also the author of Shakespeare, Made in America, Return to the Little Island, Here and There, Neither here nor there, At Home: A Brief History of Private Life and That Summer.