Contributors

Robert Greene is the #1 international bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, The Art of Seduction, Mastery, The 50th Law (with 50 Cent), The Laws of Human Nature and The Daily Laws. A globally renowned expert on human behaviour, his titles have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and have been cited as influences on industry moguls and artists from Jay-Z to Busta Rhymes. He has a degree in Classical Studies and lives in Los Angeles.

Lane Greene writes the Johnson column about language for The Economist. His book about the politics of language, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity, was published by Delacorte Press in 2011.

Kenneth Greenway is the Cemetery Park Manager of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. He has worked full-time in nature conversation since 2000 and has two decades of experience of working with children in natural spaces, including running forest school. He has two children and spends most of his time immersed in the living world

Rita Greer has been a full-time writer since 1970, specialising in writing for people on special diet. She has written over thirty books and in 2010 she was awarded an honorary MA by the Open University for 'her notable contribution to education and culture'. She is the author of Rita Greer's Vegetarian Cookbook, Simply Gluten Free, The Soft Diet and Wheat-Free Cooking.

Born in Barcelona in 1931, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living writer. A bitter opponent of the Franco regime, his early novels were banned in Spain. In 1956 he moved to Paris. Since then he has written extensively on the city as melting-pot, the expulsion of the Moors from Europe and the art of reading. In 2004 Goytisolo was awarded the Juan Rulfo International Latin American and Caribbean Prize for Literature. He lived in Morocco until his death in 2017.

Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD, is a practicing clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst, and shamanic practitioner. He teaches at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago and is on staff at the Replogle Center for Counseling and Well-Being, and is the best-selling author of Change Your Story, Change Your Life.

Stanislav Grof is an internationally acclaimed researcher of the transformative potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. He is a founder of Transpersonal Psychology, and teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

John Howard Griffin was born in Texas in 1920. As a student in France in 1939 he was caught up with the outbreak of the Second World War, and worked with the French Resistance before joining the US Army. Hit by shrapnel in an air raid, he lost his sight; a bout of spinal malaria in 1955 led to the paralysis of his lower body, but remarkably he regained both his sight and the use of his legs two years later. After the publication of Black Like Me he worked as a human rights activist, and taught at the University of Peace. He died in 1980.

Earl A. Grollman is an internationally acclaimed Rabbi and bereavement counsellor. Among his numerous awards he has received the Distinguished Human Service Award from Yeshiva University.

Kate Griffin studied English literature at university and developed a healthy obsession with Victorian gothic novels. She has worked as an assistant to an antiques dealer, a journalist for local newspapers and for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, Kate's first book, won the Stylist/Faber crime writing competition. She is also the author of three subsequent Kitty Peck novels; a gothic standalone, Fyneshade</i>; and the co-author of the forthcoming The Blackbirds of St Giles with Marcia Hutchinson, under the pseudonym Lila Cain. Kate lives in St Albans.