Jay Griffiths travelled the world living with indigenous tribes to write her award-winning latest book, Wild: An Elemental Journey (Hamish Hamilton, 2007), shortlisted for this year’s Orwell prize and winner of the inaugural Orion Book Award, 2007. Wild is a manifesto for the essential wildness of the human spirit, the necessity of wild land for the health of the human spirit, and an investigation into the words and meanings that shape our ideas of ‘wildness’. Griffiths is also the author of Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time (Flamingo, 1999), exploring some of the different ways in which indigenous people see time. It won the 2003 Barnes and Noble “Discover” award for the best new non-fiction writer, for which her book was cited as “cleverness in the service of genius.”
She has written for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, The Observer, and many other publications. Her work has been translated and published in several languages around the world.

More information:

Wild reviewed in the Guardian

Interview with Jay Griffiths