Gary Younge  is a British 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. Younge
is also currently a Belle Zeller visiting scholar at Brooklyn college, where he teaches classes on media and politics.

No Place Like Home: A Black Briton’s Journey through the American South by Gary Younge

Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States by Gary Younge