Michael G. Bryson is a former news and sports reporter and editor from Des Moines, Iowa and the elder brother of travel writer Bill Bryson. He co-published a book The Babe Didn't Point: And Other Stories About Iowans and Sports with his son Michael G. Bryson Jr in 1989. He also published a book called The Twenty-Four-Inch Home Run[1] in 1990. Bryson was editor and associate publisher of the Sun Press Newspapers in Hawaii from 1979 to 1986. He covered the New York Mets in 1969 while a sports reporter for the Associated Press. He was a news reporter for the Des Moines Register and Tribune from 1970 to 1979. He attended Drake University.