Bradley Trevor Greive

New York Times bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive ​(BTG) became a​ household name ​after writing The Blue Day Book in 2000.​ ​He​ has since gone on to become one of the world’s most successful humor authors​, and his books have​​ sold more than 30 million copies ​in​ 2​9​ languages​ across ​115 countrie​s​.

Born in Tasmania, ​BTG spent most of his childhood living in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore​ before returning to Australia​. After graduating from The Royal Military College​,​ BTG served as a Paratrooper Platoon Commander in the Australian Army​ before starting his​ publishing career as a cartoonist with​ the Sydney Morning Herald​.

An internationally respected wildlife expert who leads, advises and funds conservation programs around the globe, BTG hosts wildlife programs on Animal Planet and Netflix, and conducted six years of field work in Southeast Alaska studying the unique brown bears endemic to the island of Kootznoowoo, where he became a formally adopted member of the Deisheetaan clan of the Native American Tlingit people, and was given the name Yáa Gí Yéil (Raven by the Pond).

BTG completed the Russian cosmonaut training program in 2004, and was the Polynesian rock-lifting champion in 2006. The accident-prone adventure sportsman has so far endured 21 surgeries, countless sutures and 7 treatments for rabies.

In 2014 BTG was awarded the Order of Australia for his services to literature and wildlife conservation, the equivalent of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Now a dual American-Australian citizen BTG, with his beloved wife and their two oddly perfect yet refreshingly feral children, currently resides in California​, primarily in order to placate his American in-laws.​

BTG's latest North American releases are:

• Penguin The Magpie/Penguin Bloom (Atria Books)

• The Blue Day Book Illustrated Edition: A Lesson in Cheering Yourself Up (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

• The World Is Great And I Am Small (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

• In Praise of Idleness: A Timeless Essay by Bertrand Russell (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press)

BREAKING NEWS:

• BTG has just signed with Hachette (ANZ) to write a new nonfiction book titled BROKEN GIRL - More details coming soon!

• ADVENTURE BEAST, BTG's semi-autobiographical animated wildlife education comedy series, is now available worldwide for free streaming on Netflix.

Link: https://www.netflix.com/title/81080959

• The Hollywood movie adaptation of BTG's uplifting and heartbreaking international bestseller, PENGUIN BLOOM, starring Naomi Watts, Jacki Weaver, Rachel House and THE WALKING DEAD's Andrew Lincoln, is now available worldwide for free streaming on Netflix.

Link: https://www.netflix.com/title/81350434