John Branyan was born in 1628 in the heart of England, a mile south of Bedford. It was a scant few years before the English Civil War. Whoops! Wait a minute—that was John BUNYAN. John BRANYAN was born in 1965 in the heart of America, a mile south of Valparaiso, Indiana a few centuries after the English Civil War. He didn’t write Pilgrim’s Progress, but he’s written loads of comedy. Here, with breathtaking energy and relentless mirth, John covers everything from domesticated rodents to robust fairy tales of grandiose verbosity-ness. Ish. Forsooth!