Archive · 8 Dec 2025
Bill Bryson Acknowledges Delhi Schoolboy in Book Update
Bill Bryson is a famous author who wrote a book called A Short History of Nearly Everything.
In the new edition of his book, he thanked a schoolboy named Kanishk Sharma from Delhi, India.
Kanishk found a mistake in the book that was there for over 20 years.
The mistake was about the origin of a word.
Bill Bryson was happy that Kanishk helped him make the book better.
Kanishk is a student in Class 11 at Air Force Bal Bharati School.
This shows that even young students can make important contributions to big books.
Bill Bryson acknowledged Kanishk Sharma in the updated edition of his book A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0.
Kanishk Sharma is a Class 11 student at Air Force Bal Bharati School in New Delhi.
Sharma identified an etymological error that had been in the book for over 20 years.
Bryson thanked Sharma for correcting the error that had gone unnoticed for decades.
The updated edition of the book was recently released.
- Who
- Bill Bryson, Kanishk Sharma
- What
- Acknowledgment of error correction in a book
- When
- In the newly released edition of 2003 bestseller
- Where
- New Delhi, India
- Why
- To correct an etymological error that had gone unnoticed for more than two decades
- Author
- Bill Bryson
- Book Title
- A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0
- Error Type
- Etymological
- Error Duration
- 20 years
- Student's Name
- Kanishk Sharma
- Student's School
- Air Force Bal Bharati School (AFBBS)
- Student's Class
- Class 11
- Location
- New Delhi, India