Rose George
British journalist and author
Rose George is a British journalist and author who writes about hidden or overlooked subjects, including sanitation, shipping and blood.
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British Born in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
About Rose George
Rose George has written for The Guardian and The New York Times. Her books cover refugees, sanitation, shipping and blood, often focusing on subjects that people ignore or consider taboo. The Big Necessity looks at sanitation around the world, starting from the fact that 2.5 billion people have no toilet. She also wrote Ninety Percent of Everything, about the shipping industry, after traveling at sea on a container ship. Under its UK title, Deep Sea and Foreign Going, it won the 2013 Mountbatten Maritime Prize. She has also written a book about blood, which examines the taboo around menstruation and the long fight for justice over contaminated blood products.