Murder in the High Himalaya (Green) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
• Education—St. Joseph's College (Ipswich)
• Awards—see below
• Currently—lives in the state of Massachusetts, USA


Jonathan Green is an award-winning author and investigative journalist specializing in narrative non-fiction. He has reported from Sudan on jihadist militias, the guerilla-controlled jungles of Colombia on the cocaine trade, corruption in oil-rich Kazakhstan, the destruction of the rainforest in Borneo, undercover in the Himalayan mountains in Tibet and Nepal tracking refugee routes, down an illegal gold mine in Africa while investigating human rights abuses along with the gang-controlled favelas of Brazil, the townships of Johannesburg and the garrisons of Jamaica among many other demanding assignments around the globe.

Recognition
His first book, the critically acclaimed Murder in the High Himalaya won the coveted Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Mountain and Wilderness Category in 2011. It also won the American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Non Fiction Book of the Year in 2011. The book is endorsed by the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere.

Green has been the recipient of the Amnesty International Media Award for Excellence in Human Rights Journalism, the American Society of Journalists and Authors award for reporting on a significant topic, Environment story of the year at the Foreign Press Association, the North American Travel Journalists Association for Sports in Conjunction with Travel and Feature Writer of the Year in the Press Gazette Magazine and Design Awards. His work has been anthologized in the Best American Crime Writing. On winning Exclusive of the Year at the Magazine Design and Journalism Awards the judges said, “It shows Green’s painstaking research and dogged determination and belief that a story must be followed to the bitter end.”

Journalism
Jonathan has written for hundreds of clients around the world and his work has been translated into at least twenty languages. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Men’s Journal, The Sunday Times Magazine, Men’s Health, Esquire (UK), Fast Company, GQ (UK), The Guardian, Best Life, The Observer Magazine, Hemispheres, Daily Telegraph Magazine, Marie Claire, The Scotsman Magazine, Car, South China Morning Post Magazine, The Australian, Mail on Sunday’s Live Magazine, Bike, Readers Digest, The Financial Times, The Times Magazine, and Worth, among many others.

Jonathan has been interviewed about his work on CNN, the BBC, radio and television, and NPR among others. He has done scores of speaking engagements at universities, colleges and companies about his work, investigative journalism, human and environmental issues and his latest book, Murder in the High Himalaya.

Adventure
Jonathan has a love of adventure. He has skydived from 30,000ft with Special Forces Soldiers in a HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) parachute jump, scuba dived under ice, ridden a bull in a rodeo school, speared fish with soldiers at 90ft under the ocean off Guantanamo Bay, raced in a Dodge Viper at 215mph before having a blow out in the Nevada desert, paraglided with eagles in the high Himalaya in Nepal, flown in aerial dogfights pulling 7 g’s, ridden a jet ski the entire length of the Mississippi, been to 2000ft under the ocean in a homemade submarine and snowkited Alaska’s mythical Bagley Icefield in -30 temperatures. He was once beaten up by skinheads in a London pub while investigating the far right in Britain. He has interviewed murderers, rapists, terrorists, car thieves, gangsters’ molls, gangsters, Aryan supremacists and street gang members.

He is a keen motorcyclist, fencer, cyclist, shooter and scuba diver—and lives in Massachusetts. (Adapted from the author's website.)