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Best-selling author Bill Bryson ‘to retire from writing’

The 68-year-old told Times Radio he had been treating retirement as an experiment this year and “it has been successful and I’m pretty likely to continue”

Author Bill Bryson (Ben Birchall/PA)

Thu, 15 Oct, 2020 - 10:13

Alexander Britton, PA

Bill Bryson, author of travel and science books which have sold millions of copies worldwide, is considering putting down the pen for good.

The 68-year-old told Times Radio he had been treating retirement as an experiment this year and “it has been successful and I’m pretty likely to continue”.

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