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威廉·麦加里（William McGurry，1951 年 12 月 8 日－）是一位英裔美国作家，创作主题包括旅行、英语和科学的非小说类书籍。他出生于美国，成年后大部分时间居住在英国，1995 年至 2003 年返回美国，同时拥有美国和英国公民身份。他于 2005 年至 2011 年担任杜伦大学校长。

Bryson 通过出版和伴随电视连续剧《小岛笔记》（1995 年）对英国的探索而在英国声名鹊起。他因出版《几乎所有事物的简史》（2003 年）而再次获得广泛认可，这本书因其易于理解的学术交流而广受赞誉。 2020年10月，他宣布他已经“退休”了写书。

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“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.