Contributors

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.

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 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.

Kaitlyn Greenidge's debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, was one of The New York Times Critics' Top 10 Books of 2016 and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times, and her writing has also appeared in Vogue, Glamour, Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. Libertie is her second novel.

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

Barbara Graziosi is Professor of Classics at Durham and Director, for the Arts and Humanities, of the Institute of Advanced Study. She has published widely on classical literature and its reception, and regularly contributes to radio and TV programmes on the arts.

William Green has written for Time, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, The New Yorker, The Spectator, and The Economist. As an editor and coauthor, he has collaborated on books such as The Great Minds of Investing and Guy Spier's much-praised memoir, The Education of a Value Investor.

Léo Grasset is the French punk scientist par excellence, founder of Dirty Biology and author of the blog 'Dans les testicules de Darwin' devoted to biology, testosterone and rock'n'roll (danslestesticulesdedarwin.blogspot.co.uk). He is also one of France's leading up-and-coming evolutionary biologists: see him in action on YouTube giving a paper at the École normale supérieure conference in Lyon in April 2015 on 'Les hommes hybrides – des chimphumains à Denisova'.

Annie Gray is a historian, cook, broadcaster and writer specialising in the history of food and dining in Britain from around 1600 to the present day. She is the author of Victory in the Kitchen and The Greedy Queen, among a number of other titles. An honorary research associate at the University of York and a Fellow of the Royal History Society, she has presented TV history documentaries including Victorian Bakers and The Sweetmakers, and is the resident food historian on BBC Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet. She lives in East Anglia.