Date/Time:
01/30/2015 | Friday | 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location:
The Long Center
701 W. Riverside Drive
Austin,TX
78704
Categories
Best-selling author Bill Bryson is one of the world’s most beloved and prolific commentators, finding delight in the minutiae of travel and the subtleties of culture. “Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud,” says the Chicago Sun-Times. Bill Bryson will regale the audience with his quirky observations, eye-opening tales and self-effacing humor through reading and sharing stories.
Attendees can expect stories and anecdotes from his books, which include The Lost Continent, A Walk in the Woods and Notes from a Small Island. His acclaimed book on the history of science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Royal Society’s Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize, the European Union’s highest literary award. He has written about language, Shakespeare and, in the hilarious memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, his own childhood. His books also include the best-seller At Home: a Short History of Private Life and the critically acclaimed One Summer: America 1927, a chronicle of the season when America came of age and changed the world for ever.
Premium Tickets are available, and include a post-performance meet-and-greet and a book signing opportunity with the author.
http://thelongcenter.org/event/bill-bryson/
