Gary Younge is a journalist and author, born to immigrant parents from Barbados. He read French and Russian at Herriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and went on to study at City University, London, where he gained a Post-graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism in 1993.

Gary Younge is a columnist and feature writer for the UK's Guardian who has written extensively from the United States, Southern Africa, Europe and the UK since he joined the paper in 1994.

In 1996 he was seconded to the Washington Post after being awarded the Lawrence Stern fellowship. His first book, "No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the Deep South", was published in 1999 by Picador to much acclaim and was released in the United States in 2002. He was named best print newspaper journalist at the Ethnic Multi Cultural Media Awards for three straight years from 2002 until 2004, and in 2000 was nominated for foreign correspondent of the year for his reporting from Zimbabwe.