Background
Gavin Evans was born on April 29, 1960 in London, United Kingdom, into the family of Bruce Read and Joan Evans.
601 University Dr, San Marcos, TX 78666, United States
Gavin attended Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) in 1978.
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Gavin studied at the University of Cape Town, where he received a Bachelor of Arts (with first-class honors) in 1981.
1 Jan Smuts Ave, Johannesburg, 2000, United States
Gavin studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he became a Bachelor of Laws in 1989 and earned a Master of Arts in 1994.
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Gavin studied at the University of Cape Town, where he received a Bachelor of Arts (with first-class honors) in 1981.
601 University Dr, San Marcos, TX 78666, United States
Gavin attended Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) in 1978.
1 Jan Smuts Ave, Johannesburg, 2000, United States
Gavin studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he became a Bachelor of Laws in 1989 and earned a Master of Arts in 1994.
(They ruled the ring with iron fists and carved their name...)
They ruled the ring with iron fists and carved their names in boxing history. Here are their stories, told in words and pictures that bring you inside the world of a heavyweight boxing champion.
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2005
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2015
(The Challenge - Outlawed Paintball Games is the story beh...)
The Challenge - Outlawed Paintball Games is the story behind the controversial history of paintball in Tasmania, Australia. It's a story that extends across three decades, is fraught with political debate, tragedy and loss. It's also a story about change, growing acceptance, re-emergence and positive possibilities for the future.
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2015
(In Mapreaders and Multitaskers, Gavin Evans argues that m...)
In Mapreaders and Multitaskers, Gavin Evans argues that male and female minds do not emerge from different planets, and that our emotional and intellectual capacities are moulded more by culture than biology.
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2017
(Why is green the colour of envy? Why is black 'evil'? Why...)
Why is green the colour of envy? Why is black 'evil'? Why is white pure? Why do we 'feel blue' or 'see red'? Why do colours have different meanings for different cultures? When we look at or talk about a colour in a particular setting, we are as likely to see its cultural or symbolic meaning as the shade itself. Why?
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2017
(Gavin Evans tackles the nature vs nurture debate head-on,...)
Gavin Evans tackles the nature vs nurture debate head-on, examining the latest studies on how intelligence develops and laying out new discoveries in genetics, palaeontology, archaeology and anthropology to unearth the truth about our shared past. In doing so, Skin Deep demolishes the pernicious myth that our race is our destiny, and instead reveals what really makes us who we are.
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2019
Gavin Evans was born on April 29, 1960 in London, United Kingdom, into the family of Bruce Read and Joan Evans.
Gavin attended Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) in 1978. Then he studied at the University of Cape Town, where he received a Bachelor of Arts (with first-class honors) in 1981. Finally, he studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he became a Bachelor of Laws in 1989 and earned a Master of Arts in 1994.
Gavin Evans worked as a journalist in South Africa between 1984 and 1992 - as a political reporter, sports writer, columnist, and occasional night news editor for the Eastern Province Herald, Rand Daily Mail, Weekly Mail, and Sunday Times, and as a foreign correspondent for the Rome-based agency IPS. During this time he also contributed stories to The Guardian and The New York Times. He was also involved in anti-apartheid politics in various capacities, which prompted him to refuse to serve in the apartheid military. This meant he needed to stay a registered student, which led to his law degree and later his doctorate in political studies.
On returning to London 25 years ago, he worked as a freelance journalist to give him the flexibility to help raise his two daughters. During this period he wrote for The Guardian, where he also had column for a while, and for The Observer, The Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Financial Times and the magazine Esquire, Men’s Health, Frank and The New Statesman, among others, and regularly wrote for the news agency Gemini. He also did sub-editing for The Guardian and Men’s Health among others, and regularly broadcast for various stations and channels of the BBC.
His non-fiction books include sporting biographies, a memoir, Dancing Shoes is Dead, a coffee table book on boxing history, books on popular science (Mapreaders & Multitaskers on genes and gender and Black Brain, White Brain on the fallacies of race science) and The Story of Colour, on the culture of colour. He has also written a commissioned screenplay and has contributed chapters to several other books.
Gavin Evans lectures first year and post-graduate students in journalism at Birkbeck, and over the past decade has also lectured at Birkbeck in critical thinking, media law, online journalism, and aspects of media theory. He also supervises MA dissertations at Cardiff University, where he lectures in research methodology, and he is a senior lecturer at the London School of Journalism. Gavin Evans lives in North London. He has two adult daughters and when not writing or lecturing he trains for marathons and other races.
(Why is green the colour of envy? Why is black 'evil'? Why...)
2017(Gavin Evans tackles the nature vs nurture debate head-on,...)
2019(In Mapreaders and Multitaskers, Gavin Evans argues that m...)
2017(The Challenge - Outlawed Paintball Games is the story beh...)
2015(They ruled the ring with iron fists and carved their name...)
2005Quotations: “Aside from the fact that writing is my profession, I usually write because I am fascinated by a topic (such as boxing) or am passionately committed to a cause (such as parenthood or politics). I also enjoy the creativity of the writing process and, when it works, the satisfaction of the finished product. Increasingly this has become a motivation in itself, with the result that I have become more concerned with style, the use of language, ways of reflecting people’s thought processes, ways of explaining their motivations in life and their weaknesses, and issues of form more generally. Eventually I hope to take this interest into the realms of fiction, but I am not in a hurry."
Gavin married a newspaper subeditor Patricia Devereaux on April 3, 1993. They have two children - Tessa and Caitlin.
