His six-part travel series Stephen Fry in America began on BBC One in October 2008, and saw him travel to each of the 50 US states. British scholar Edith Hall criticised Fry's limited selection of myths in her review for The Guardian [5] and said that the book's lack of a contents page or index means that the reader is not warned of its uncomprehensive nature. Stephen Fry backs The Wildlife Trusts' appeal on Giving Tuesday | The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside". While climbing aboard a boat, he slipped between it and the dock, and, stopping himself from falling into the water, his body weight snapped his right humerus. In May 2009, Fry unveiled The Dongle of Donald Trefusis, an audiobook series following Donald Trefusis (a fictional character from Fry's novel The Liar and from the BBC Radio 4 series Loose Ends), set over 12 episodes.

Fry has since written three further novels, several non-fiction works and three volumes of autobiography. Fry's first documentary was the Emmy Award-winning Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive in 2006. When writing a book review for Tatler, Fry wrote under a pen name, Williver Hendry, editor of A Most Peculiar Friendship: The Correspondence of Lord Alfred Douglas and Jack Dempsey, a field close to his heart as an Oscar Wilde enthusiast. This extract picks up halfway through their journey east, to Colchis in modern-day Georgia, as the Argonauts - the sailors of the Argo - endeavour tobring the Golden Fleece home.In 1983, the BBC offered Fry, Laurie and Thompson their own show, which became The Crystal Cube, a mixture of science fiction and mockumentary that was cancelled after the first episode. Fry’s collection is the equivalent of a book advertising itself as retelling “the stories from Shakespeare” that leaves out Hamlet, Othello, Lear, Julius Caesar, Romeo, Juliet and Henry V.

The resulting vulnerability to his radial nerve– which affects use of the arm– was not diagnosed until he saw a consultant in the UK. In 2003, Fry made his directorial début with Bright Young Things, adapted by him from Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies. He is the bestselling author of four novels - The Liar, The Hippopotamus, Making History and The Stars' Tennis Balls - as well as three volumes of autobiography - Moab is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me.In 2017, the bird louse Saepocephalum stephenfryii was named after him, in honour of his contributions to the popularization of science as host of QI. Since August 2008, he has presented Fry's English Delight, a series on BBC Radio 4 about the English language.

This comprised a set of three one-man shows (titled Gods, Heroes and Men), each two hours in length, which were performed consecutively, multiple times during the show's run.Even if only half the stories of what Daedalus can achieve are true then you can be certain that no more cunning and clever an inventor, architect and craftsman has ever walked this earth. We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. Fry grew up in the village of Booton, Norfolk, having moved at an early age from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, where he had attended Chesham Preparatory School. Similar to Google Sidewiki, Pushnote was a browser add-on that enabled users to leave comments on any site they visit.