'Gary Younge' (born 1969 in
Hitchin,
UK) is a journalist and author, born to immigrant parents from
Barbados. Younge read French and Russian at
Heriot-Watt University in
Edinburgh. He went on to study at
City University, London where he gained a
Post-graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism in
1993.
Younge is a columnist for ''
The Guardian'' and is currently the newspaper's
New York City correspondent. He also has a monthly column for
''The Nation'' called "Beneath the Radar." His book ''No Place Like Home'', in which he retraced the route of the
civil rights Freedom Riders, was shortlisted for the
Guardian First Book Award in
1999.
Bibliography
★ ''The English Question'' Gordon Marsden (Editor), Tony Wright (Editor), Robert Hazell, Ian McLean, Austin Mitchell,
Mary J. Hickman, Gary Younge (Fabian Society, 2000, ISBN 0-7163-6002-0)
★ ''No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South'' (Picador, 1999, ISBN 0-330-36980-6); (Picador, 2000, ISBN 0-330-36981-4); (University Press of Mississippi, 2002, ISBN 1-57806-488-0)
★ ''Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States'' (The New Press, 2006, ISBN 1-59558-068-9)
External links
★
Gary Younge's ''Guardian'' column with full archives
★
Open Directory Project - Gary Younge directory category
★
Articles and bio for ''The Nation''