Author Biography:
Bill Bryson's many books include, most recently In a Sunburned Country, as well as I'm a Stranger Here Myself, A walk in the Woods, Neither Here Nor There, Made in America, and The Mother Tongue.He edited The Best American Travel Writing 2000. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he lived in England for almost two decades. He now lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and four children.
This successor to the popular The Mother Tongue presents a brilliant, one-of-a-kind history not only of American words, but of America through words. Filled with hugely entertaining anecdotes about the way American English came to be, Made In America is "delightful . . . exuberantly informative." (Washington Post Book World).
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