Richard Grant

Richard Grant (born 1963) is a freelance British travel writer and memoirist based in Arizona. As of 2022, Richard Grant is again living in Tucson.

Grant's first book, American Nomads (2003, UK: Ghost Riders), looks at nomadism and people who choose to live on the road in America. Grant wrote the script for a BBC documentary called American Nomads, based in part on the book, which aired in the fall of 2011.

God's Middle Finger (UK: Bandit Roads, 2008) is about the lawless region of the Sierra Madre mountains in northwestern Mexico through which Grant travelled. Tom Zoellner, writing in The New York Times, observed: "Grant's British accent doubtlessly served him well, allowing him to move through the tradition-bound society of the Mississippi Delta like a neutron, without obvious allegiances or biases."

The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi sought to explore the contradictions and eccentricities of a complex city.