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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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Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. "A Short History of Nearly Everything" is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.