Bill Bryson (From Wikimedia Commons)
"Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He moved to and settled in England in 1977, working in journalism until becoming a full time author. For many years Bill lived with his English wife and their four young children in North Yorkshire, before moving the family to New Hampshire in America for a spell in the late 1990s. Now they have all returned to live in the UK."
(From https://www.billbryson.co.uk/index.php/about/)
Trailer for Bill Bryson's book The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: