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Gary YoungeAlfred Knobler FellowBorn in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and raised in Stevenage near London, Gary Younge graduated at 17 and went to teach English to refugees in Sudan before going on to study French and Russian at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. Upon graduation he was awarded a scholarship from The Guardian to study newspaper journalism at City University in London in 1992. After a brief stint as a researcher on a televised international affairs magazine program World This Week, he joined The Guardian in 1994. In 1996, he was sent to the The Washington Post after being awarded the Lawrence Stern fellowship, which assigns a young British journalist to the Washington Post's national desk each year. His first book, No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the Deep South (Picador, 1999), was published to much acclaim and was released in the United States in 2002. His second book, Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States (New Press, 2006), was released on both sides of the Atlantic. He was awarded Newspaper Journalist of the Year by the Ethnic Minority Media Awards in the UK for three straight years 2002 to 2004. He was also nominated for Foreign Journalist of the Year in 2000 for his reporting from Zimbabwe. Younge has written for the Los Angeles Times, GQ Style, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Hello! He also helped produce two television documentaries for the BBC: Keepin' it Real: On the Trial of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs and Minister of Rage on the banning of Louis Farrakhan from the UK. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Tara.
Selected Articles and Videos: Former DNC chairman says attack ads against Obama will get nastier Virginia Voices Indiscreet Conversations Obama and the Power of Symbols America lauds Martin Luther King, but undermines his legacy every day Ranking race against gender is the first step towards fundamentalism Gary Younge reports from South Carolina Read the rest of Gary Younge's columns for The Guardian here. Read the rest of Gary Younge's columns for The Nation here.
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Salvation BoulevardA novel
From the Edgar Award-winning novelist and author of Wag the Dog and The Librarian comes a new mystery novel about a private investigator and a case that tests his courage, character and soul. The victim is an atheist professor, the main suspect—who has confessed and is in custody—a Muslim foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew and the detective a born-again Christian. The New York Times says of Beinhart, "The man can really write." Read glowing reviews of the book in the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Diego Union Tribune. More Clive Stafford Smith on PBS DocumentaryOctober 16 - November 20 | PBS Affiliates
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