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.
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Earl A. Grollman
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
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.
Andrew Grove
Andrew S. Grove was the CEO of Intel, and the company's third employee. An early titan of Silicon Valley, he was 'idolized' by Steve Jobs, transformed Intel into the world's largest computer chip maker and helped shape the world of computing. Having immigrated from Hungary to the US aged 20, he would go on to amass a personal fortune, and to write books on management – including High Output Management – that continue to influence leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Ben Horowitz today.
Tim S. Grover
Tim S. Grover is the preeminent authority on the science and art of achieving physical and mental dominance. Since 1989, he has been the CEO of Attack Athletics, appearing around the world as a keynote speaker and consultant to business leaders, athletes, and elite achievers in any area who want to know how the best can get better in anything they do, teaching the principles of relentless drive, result-driven performance, and mental toughness. A featured columnist at SI.com and Yahoo.com, he also appears regularly on ESPN and other media outlets. He is the author of the national bestseller Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable and creator of digital training platform "The Relentless System." He is based in Chicago.
Alex Grecian
Grace Spence Green
Stephen Gregory
Rhiannon Grist
Chris Grabenstein
Chris Grabenstein is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty children's books, including the Mr Lemoncello's Library series. He is the current president of Mystery Writers of America.
Juan Goytisolo
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.
Marianne Gordon
James Goss
Dave Goulson
Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers A STING IN THE TALE, THE GARDEN JUNGLE and A BUZZ IN THE MEADOW. He also founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006.
For his work in championing the cause of wild bees he was made the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's Social Innovator of the Year, awarded the Zoological Society of London's Marsh Award for Conservation Biology, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and given the British Ecological Society Public Engagement Award.
As far back as 2015, he made BBC Wildlife Magazine's list of the top 50 most influential people in conservation. He's also been an effective lobbyist behind the European Union's ban of neonicotinoid pesticides.