[2] 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.
[2] Years later he would return to school and in 2015 obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College.
[3] Green's writing career began at age 18, when he worked for the Suffolk Free Press as an investigative journalist.
[5] He has reported in Sudan, Brazil, Kazakhstan, South Africa, China, Colombia, Ukraine, Borneo and the ice fields of Alaska among many other places.
[5] Green's first book, Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet (2010)[6] is about the Nangpa La shootings.