Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian, he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media.

He has written five books, most recently Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Award in 2017. He has also written for The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books. Granta, The New York Times, The Financial Times, GQ and The New Statesman, among others, and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit. 

His journalism has won him several prizes most recently in 2018, when he received (Broadsheet) Feature Writer of the year at the Society of Editors Press Awards Feature of the Year from the Amnesty Media Awards.  In 2015 he was awarded the David Nyhan Prize for political journalism from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center. “It’s the powerless on whose behalf he writes,” said the Center’s director. 

His other books include. 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.