* 1951 – Bill Bryson, American author

Bill Bryson dedicates a chapter of his book Down Under ( published in the US as In a Sunburned Country ) to Holt's disappearance.

According to Bill Bryson, there are many suggestions for the derivation of the word, but none is universally accepted.

* " Atoms of Cognition: Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715 – 2010 ," chapter in Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, edited by Bill Bryson.

Author Bill Bryson states that Perth is the most remote city on earth, which he justifies by noting that the population of metropolitan Perth is greater than the combined populations of the rest of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and South Australia, west of Adelaide.

Bill Bryson documents some examples of the island's dialect in his book, The Mother Tongue.

** Bill Bryson, American-born British author

Bill Bryson suggests in Made in America that it could either come from the railroad greeting, " Ho, beau!

Bill Bryson mused that the English language would be richer if we could call a tidy-haired person shevelled – as an opposite to dishevelled.

Bill Bryson in his book, ' A Short History Of Nearly Everything ', has expressed a similar opinion.

As of 2009, notable residents living in or close to Wymondham include / have included George Szirtes, poet ; Oliver Winterbottom, car designer ; Simon Beaufoy, writer of the films ' The Full Monty ' and ' Slumdog Millionaire '; Bill Bryson, humorist, author and travel writer ; Justin Hawkins, singer with The Darkness ; and the late Edwin Gooch, MP and President of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers.

The castle at Barnard Castle William Wordsworth, Daniel Defoe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hilaire Belloc, Bill Bryson and the artist J M W Turner have also visited the town.

* Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything ( 2003 )

" Bill Bryson says, " those writers who scrupulously avoid ' hopefully ' in such constructions do not hesitate to use at least a dozen other words – ' apparently ,' ' presumably ,' ' happily ,' ' sadly ,' ' mercifully ,' ' thankfully ,' and so on – in precisely the same way.

* Bill Bryson details Kingsford Smith's life in his book " Down Under "

In A Short History of Nearly Everything, author Bill Bryson notes that following his criticism of the lead industry he was refused contracts with many research organizations, including the supposedly neutral United States Public Health Service.

In his 2010 book At Home, author Bill Bryson suggests that Siddal may have suffered from poisoning, because she was a " devoted swallower " of Fowler's Solution, a so-called complexion improver made from dilute arsenic.

Bill Bryson briefly talked about the character ( its early incarnation ) in The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, calling it amongst the most pointless toys of his childhood — it let kids confirm the harsh truth that even with eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hat, etc.

* Bill Bryson, author

* Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson, in his A Short History of Nearly Everything, notes:

American travel writer Bill Bryson described the chocolate digestive as " a British masterpiece ".

* Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

American author Bill Bryson begins his European travels, documented in his popular book Neither Here Nor There, with a visit to Hammerfest in order to see the Northern Lights, stating that he found the town " engrossing " and that it " grew to feel like home ".

Barbara was a frequent critic of the Bill Clinton administration and wrote a book about then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 1999 ).

The CMM was published as a book in 1995 by its primary authors, Mark C. Paulk, Charles V. Weber, Bill Curtis, and Mary Beth Chrissis.

* 1992 — Bill Inmon publishes the book Building the Data Warehouse.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly injected themselves into the public debate about contentious scientific issues, positioning themselves as skeptics, their views gaining traction because the media gives them equal time out of a sense of fairness.

The book was written by Jim Davis, with music and lyrics by Michael Dansicker and Bill Meade, and it was booked by AWA Touring Services.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly position themselves as skeptics, with their views being given equal time by the media.

Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel propose several guidelines for journalists in their book The Elements of Journalism.

A book and a CD edited by Foday Musa Suso, produced by Bill Laswell.

* Local Colour: Travels in the Other Australia, a book by Bill Bachman and Tim Winton

The headland in the book called The Snout is Portland Bill.

* 1951 – Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer

American travel-writer Bill Bryson's impressions of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in his book " Down Under ", ( 2000 ).

The American photojournalist Bill Owens documented the culture of suburbia in the 1970s, most notably in his book Suburbia.

In his book " The Education of a Coach ", David Halberstam writes that one of Bill Belichick's specific plans to combat the Bills involved convincing his defense ( who had been the best unit against the run in the NFL that season ) that they would win the game if Thurman Thomas ran for more than 100 yards.

In that book, Bork subscribed to the interpretation of constitutional historian Russell Caplan, who asserted that this Amendment was meant to ensure that the federal Bill of Rights would not affect provisions in state law that restrain state governments.

* According to Simon Cowell's biography and Bill Carter's book Desperate Networks, UPN was offered American Idol before FOX and turned it down.

Two early adventures for the game by Bill Willingham, Death Duel with the Destroyers and The Island of Dr. Apocalypse, used characters that would later appear in his Comico comic book series, Elementals.

* May 1 – Batman, created by Bob Kane ( and, unofficially, Bill Finger ) makes his first appearance in a comic book.

Chameleon is described in Cameron Browne's book Connection Games: Variations on a Theme ( 2005 ) and was independently discovered by Randy Cox and Bill Taylor.

These shows normally consists of three to five musical pieces accompanied by formations rooted in origin from " Patterns in Motion ", a book penned by one-time Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band assistant band director William C. " Bill " Moffit, who would later become bandmaster of Purdue University All-American Marching Band and University of Houston Spirit of Houston.

The merger was also the subject of a book Taken for a Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off With Chrysler, ( 2000 ) by Bill Vlasic and Bradley A. Stertz.

Bill Yoshida learned comic book lettering from Ben Oda and was hired in 1965 by Archie Comics, where he averaged 75 pages a week for 40 years for an approximate total of 156, 000 pages.

In an effort to reach a wider audience, James self-published an annual book titled The Bill James Baseball Abstract beginning in 1977.