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Revision as of 07:32, 2 October 2011 by GreenC (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Richard Grant is a freelance British travel writer based in Arizona. He was born in Malaysia, lived in Kuwait as a boy and then moved to London. He went to school in Hammersmith and received a history degree from University College, London. After graduation he worked as a security guard, a janitor, a house painter and a club DJ before moving to America where he lived a nomadic life in the American West. Eventually settling in Tuscon, Arizona as a base from which to travel. He supported himself by writing articles for Men's Journal, Esquire and Details, among others.
Grant's first book American Nomads (2003, UK: Ghost Riders) looks at nomadism and people who choose to live on the road in America. It won the 2004 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Grant wrote the script for a BBC documentary called Ghost Riders, based in part on the book, which aired in the fall of 2011.
His next book God's Middle Finger (UK: Bandit Roads, 2008) is about the lawless region of the Sierra Madre mountains in northwestern Mexico in which Grant traveled. It was nominated for the 2009 Dolman Best Travel Book Award. Grant co-wrote a screenplay about the Mexican border with Johnny Ferguson and Ruben Ruiz entitled Tres Huevos/A Burning Thing.
His third book Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa (2011) is about Grant's travels in harrowing situations around East Africa, including an attempt at the first descent of the Malagarasi River in Tanzania.
Bibliography
- American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders, (2003)
- God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre (2008)
- Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa (2011)
References
- ^ Biography, Richard Grant website.
External links
- Richard Grant's Website
- "Review: Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads". review of Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads in The Observer, February 2, 2003; Page 17
- "Into the Wild", review of God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre in The Washington Post, March 30, 2008; Page BW04
- "Richard Grant Has Returned from Mexico Alive", September 2008.