Richard Grant (writer)

[1] After graduation, he worked as a security guard, a janitor, a house painter and a club DJ before moving to America where he lived a nomadic life in the American West,[1] eventually settling in Tucson, Arizona, as a base from which to travel.

[1] 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.

Grant co-wrote a screenplay about the Mexican border with Johnny Ferguson and Ruben Ruiz entitled Tres Huevos/A Burning Thing.

[3] Tom Zoellner 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.