Rose George is a British journalist and author. She began writing in 1994, as an intern at ''

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'' magazine in

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. Later, she became senior editor and writer at ''

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'' magazine, the bilingual "global magazine about local cultures" published in eighty countries and based first in

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, then

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. In 1999, she moved to

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and began a freelance career and has since written for the ''

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'', ''

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'', the ''

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'', '' Daily Telegraph'', '' Details'', '' Bad Idea'' and others. Along the way, she has been war correspondent in

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for '' Condé Nast Traveler'' magazine and was twice a guest at

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's birthday party. Until 2010, she was senior editor at large for ''Tank'', a quarterly magazine of fashion, art, reportage, and culture based in London. She has written four non-fiction books: *''A Life Removed'' (Penguin 2004), explores the daily reality of refugees and displaced people in and from Liberia.'' *'' The Big Necessity: the Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters'' (Metropolitan/Portobello 2008). *'' Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate'', was released in August 2013. The UK title is ''Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry the Brings you 90% of Everything''; it was also released August 2013. *''Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood'' (Metropolitan Books, 2018). George graduated with a First-Class Honours BA in Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford in 1992 and an MA in international politics in 1994 from the

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as a Thouron Scholar and Fulbright Fellow. She speaks fluent French and Italian.

Books

* ''A Life Removed'' (Penguin Books, 2004); * '' The Big Necessity'' (Metropolitan/Portobello, 2008); * ''Deep Sea and Foreign Going'' (Portobello, 2013); , published in the US as '' Ninety Percent of Everything'' (Metropolitan Books, 2013); * ''Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood'' (Metropolitan Books, 2018);

References

Sources

* Rose, George. THE BIG NECESSITY. 1st edition. New York, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008. * George, Ros
"... And Sewage, Too"
nytimes.com. 28 April 2010.

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:George, Rose British expatriates in the United States British journalists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Writers from Leeds