Nathan Rich

Early life and education Rich is the only child of Julie Miriam Rich, a pet communicator, who died from cancer in 2010. He spent seven years homeless while using and dealing drugs According to reviewer Tony Ortega, "Scythe Tleppo is a roller coaster ride between these moments of clarity and one shocking scene after another told in brutal detail about the ways Nathan was abused, the ways he abused himself, and his ever downward spiral to homelessness and near-suicidal drug use."

Personal life Since moving to China, Rich has started a video blog sympathetic to the People's Republic of China. Among the views he holds are that those who had taken part in the Hong Kong protests were "terrorists" and "right-wing", and that Taiwan was an integral part of China and could therefore not be a state. He has also commented on the China–United States trade war and China's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.