Gary Younge, an Alfred Knobler Fellow at the Nation Institute, is an award-winning columnist for the Guardian and Nation, and an acclaimed author. In 2009 he won the British James Cameron award for his coverage of the 2008 presidential election, and in 2015 he won the Foreign Commentator of the Year Award. His most recent book is ANOTHER DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives. His previous books include THE SPEECH: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream, WHO ARE WE --- AND SHOULD IT MATTER IN THE 21st CENTURY?, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND: Encounters in the Disunited States, and NO PLACE LIKE HOME: A Black Briton's Journey through the American South. Formerly the Belle Zeller Visiting Professor of public policy and social administration at Brooklyn College, CUNY, he has two honorary degrees from British universities.

Books by Gary Younge

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

by Gary Younge - Current Affairs, Nonfiction

On an average day in America, seven young people aged 19 or under will be shot dead. In ANOTHER DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother’s ex-boyfriend on his doorstep in Ohio, to Pedro Dado Cortez (16), shot by an enemy gang on a street corner in California, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of 24 hours to reveal the powerful human stories behind the statistics.