Bradley Trevor Greive

Bradley Trevor Greive AM (Yáa Gí Yéil) is a Tasmanian screenwriter, librettist, film and television producer, and New York Times bestselling author.

Since the release of The Blue Day Book, in 1999, BTG has sold more than 30 million books in 115 countries and received numerous publishing honours, including two ABIA Book of the Year awards.

BTG is a graduate of the Royal Military College (Australia), and the Yuri A. Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut Training Center (Russia). The former paratrooper commander and Gerald Durrell devotee has led wildlife expeditions and in situ conservation projects on every continent, and completed several years of field research on Alaskan coastal brown bears in the Alexander archipelago. His love for wild creatures and wild places has resulted in twenty-three surgeries and countless sutures, as well as eight treatments for rabies due to bat and monkey bites. BTG was the French Polynesian rock-lifting champion in 2006, and in 2014 he was awarded the Order of Australia for his service to literature and wildlife conservation.

BTG's first feature film is Penguin Bloom (released in 2021), based on the nonfiction book he also wrote, and starring Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln, Jacki Weaver and Rachel House. His next movie will be the war drama, Happy Flowers.

His most recent book for adults is Broken Girl (Hachette), which is currently being adapted to the screen as well. His next book, his first novel for adult readers, is Hartford (Echo Bonnier).

Upcoming children's titles include, The Little Bird that Fell (HarperCollins), Splintery Boo (Thames & Hudson), Chicken in a Wetsuit (Scholastic), Death by Adventure (Scholastic), and Snow Monkey Days (Levine Querido).
His next humorous gift book, You're Not Crazy - The World Is Crazy, will be published by Andrews McMeel Publishing later this year.

BTG' is the star of the animated wildlife comedy series, Adventure Beast (Netflix), and his most recent television series is History's Deadliest (The History Channel), and his next series is the relaunch of Modern Marvels (The History Channel).

A dual Australian-American citizen, BTG, his wife and their two young children are formally adopted members of the Native American Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska, and currently reside in California.

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