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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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Shakespeare: The World as Stage

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunkerlike room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.