JR Daeschner

Raised on a ranch in Colorado, JR won a Fulbright Scholarship to Latin America after university and gained firsthand experience of carnival, cholera and military coups. Between blackouts and water shortages, he also freelanced for The New York Times. He later worked on Fleet Street and Wall Street, with stints in Peru, Mexico and Brazil.

JR's first book True Brits: A tour of twenty-first century Britain in all its shin-kicking, bog-snorkelling and cheese-rolling glory was published in the UK by Century and in the US by Overlook Press.  The said humiliating shin-kicking debut was broadcast to the world by CNN. His second book Tossers and Arseblowers: An Alternative Romp Through Europe is a bottom-blowing, baby-jumping, matchmaking odyssey around Europe and was published by Century.

Elsewhere, his writing on subjects ranging from male escorts and estuary English to the controversial World Economic Forum has been published on both sides of the Atlantic, from The Times to the International Herald Tribune.