Gary Younge Biography

Gary Younge is an author broadcaster and editor-at-large for The Guardian based in London. He also writes a monthly column Beneath the Radar for the Nation magazine and is the Alfred Knobler Fellow for The Nation Institute. He has written five books: Another Day in the Death of America A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives; The Speech The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream; Who Are We? And Should it Matter in the 21st century; Stranger in a Strange Land Travels in the Disunited States and No Place Like Home A Black Briton’s Journey Through the Deep South. He has made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit.
Born in Hertfordshire to Barbadian parents he grew up in Stevenage until he was 17 when he went to Kassala Sudan with Project Trust to teach English in a United Nations Eritrean refugee school. On his return he attended Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh where he studied French and Russian (Translating and Interpreting).
In his final year at Heriot Watt he was awarded a bursary from The Guardian to study journalism at City University and started working at The Guardian in 1993. In 1996 he was awarded the Laurence Stern Fellowship which sends a young British journalist to work at the Washington Post for three months.

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