Bill Bryson: Award-Winning Travel Writer

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  06.18.04 | 9:32 PM ET

That’s right. According to Reuters, the author of “A Walk in the Woods” and other travel memoirs has won the highest award in Britain’s Aventis Prizes for Science Books for his recent tome, “A Short History of Nearly Everything.” What can’t Bryson write about successfully?