Biography: Gary Younge

[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 throughout 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. Retracing the route of the civil rights Freedom Riders, it was shortlisted for the First Book Award.