Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green is an English author and investigative journalist specialising in narrative non-fiction. He is the author of two books Murder in the High Himalaya and Sex Money Murder (2018).

Life and career

Green grew up on the family pig farm at Glemsford, near Sudbury, Suffolk; when he was 14 the family sold the farm settling in Bury St Edmunds. He attended boarding school at St Joseph's College, Ipswich, until age 18, but was unhappy with his education there and vowed to become a journalist after he graduated.

Green's writing career began at age 18, when he worked for the Suffolk Free Press as an investigative journalist. Since then, Green has written for The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Garden and Gun, Town and Country, the Sunday Times Magazine, Men's Journal, Fast Company, Esquire, GQ, The Financial Times, Men's Health, and The Mail on Sunday, among others. He has reported in Sudan, Brazil, Kazakhstan, South Africa, China, Colombia, Ukraine, Borneo and the ice fields of Alaska among many other places. is about the Nangpa La shootings. It is based on his article in Men's Journal called "Murder at 19,000 Feet". Murder in the High Himalaya won the Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Mountain and Wilderness Category (2011). It also won the American Society of Journalists and Authors "Outstanding Non Fiction Book of the Year" (2011). The book is endorsed by the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere. As of March 2019, a TV show based on the book was in development by rapper and producer 50 Cent along with producer Nicole Rocklin.

Awards 2011 American Society of Journalists and Authors, Outstanding Non-Fiction Book Award, Murder in the High Himalaya 2011 Banff Mountain Book Competition, Mountain and Wilderness Literature category, Murder in the High Himalaya