Gary Younge

Gary Younge at Haymarket Books in 2013.

Gary Younge (born 1969) is a British journalist, author and broadcaster.

Biography

Younge was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK, to immigrant parents from Barbados and grew up in Stevenage. When he was 17, he went to teach English in a United Nations Eritrean refugee school in Sudan with Project Trust. On his return, he went to Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, where he studied French and Russian, Translating and Interpreting. He went on to study at City University, London, gaining a post-graduate Diploma in Journalism in 1993.

Younge is a feature writer and award-winning columnist for The Guardian. He writes 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. Younge also has made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from the Tea Party movement to hip-hop culture.

From 2001 to 2003, he won Best Newspaper Journalist Award in Britain’s Ethnic Minority Media Awards three years in a row.

In 2009, Younge was appointed the Belle Zeller Visiting Professor for Public Policy and Social Administration at Brooklyn College, where he taught both graduates and undergraduates for two years.

In 2011, he moved to Chicago, where he now lives with his wife Tara Mack and his son, Osceola.^[1]

His brother Pat Younge is chief creative officer of BBC Vision.^[2]

References

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 0-716360020); (Manchester University Press, annotated edition 3 April 2006, ISBN 978-0719073694)
• No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South (Picador, 1999, ISBN 978-0330369800); (Picador, 2000, ISBN 978-0330369817), OCLC 44485209; (University Press of Mississippi, 2002, ISBN 978-1578064885, OCLC 49226176
• Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States (The New Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1595580689), OCLC 62421357
• Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? (Viking, 2010, ISBN 978-0670917037), OCLC 500783871
• The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream (Haymarket, August 2013, ISBN 978-1608463220)

External links

• Official website
• Column archive at The Guardian
  • Memoirs of a teenage Trot, The Guardian, 19 February 2000
• Column archive at The Nation
• Gary Younge on Twitter
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Works by or about Gary Younge in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Article archive at Journalisted
• Gary Younge on the Open Directory Project