Richard Grant

Richard Grant is a New York Times bestselling author and journalist living in Tucson, Arizona. He has published six non-fiction books: American Nomads (2003), God's Middle Finger (2008), Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa (2011), Dispatches From Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta (2015), The Deepest South of All (2020) and A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona (2024). He writes articles on a wide range of subjects for magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Smithsonian magazine, The Guardian, and the Telegraph magazine (UK). He is the writer and host of American Nomads, a documentary for the BBC based on his first book. His hobbies include hunting, floating down rivers, playing guitar, and the pleasures of the table.