Background
He was born in Malaysia, lived in Kuwait as a boy and then moved to London.
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Richard Grant
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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 Tucson, Arizona, as a base from which to traveling He supported himself by writing articles for Men"s Journal, Esquire and Details, among others
Grant"s first book American Nomads (2003, United Kingdom: Ghost Riders) looks at nomadism and people who choose to live on the road in America.
Grant wrote the script for a British Broadcasting Corporation documentary called American Nomads, based in part on the book, which aired in the fall of 2011. His next book God"s Middle Finger (United Kingdom: Bandit Roads, 2008) is about the lawless region of the Sierra Madre mountains in northwestern Mexico in which Grant traveled.
lieutenant 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 is about Grant"s travels in harrowing situations around East Africa, including an attempt at the first descent of the Malagarasi River in Tanzania.
Grant"s fourth book Dispatches from Pluto, released in October 2015, describes his move to Pluto, Mississippi, with his then girlfriend Mariah, and their life and impressions about the Mississippi Delta. Tom Zoellner in the New York Times observed "Grant’s British accent doubtlessly served him well, allowing him to move through the tradition-bound society of the Mississippi Delta like a neutron, without obvious allegiances or biases.".
