Gary Younge (born 1969 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK) is a British journalist and author, born to immigrant parents from Barbados. Younge grew up in Stevenage and 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.
The English Question Gordon Marsden (Editor), Tony Wright (Editor), Robert Hazell, Ian McLean, Austin Mitchell, Mary J. Hickman, Gary Younge (Fabian Society, 2000, ISBN 0-7163-6002-0); (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); (University Press of Mississippi, 2002, ISBN 978-1578064885)
Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States (The New Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1595580689)
Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? (Viking, 2010, ISBN 978-0670917037)