Gary Younge

Gary Younge was born in 1969 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, in the south of England. He studied French and Russian and taught English to refugees in Sudan.

Since joining the Guardian in 1994, he has written extensively from the United States, South Africa and Europe on social and political issues. In 1999, he published No Place Like Home, a provocative and passionate polemic about race in Britain and the United States, winner of the Guardian First Book Award.

Gary Younge's latest book Strangers in a Strange Land—praised as “forthright, sane, measured, and vivid”—is an expansive commentary on contemporary America—“precisely capturing the intricacies of a nation perplexed at its growing isolation from the rest of the world and often bitterly divided against itself”.

Gary Younge works as a columnist for the Guardian, and is based in Brooklyn, New York.