The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt KidBill Bryson on his most personal journey yet into his own childhood in America's Mid West. From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s. Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generation, Bryson grew up