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Strategist, logician, storyteller, captivating author, outlaw folksinger, casino innovator, and restless trouble-maker for all the right reasons…

For Gary Green, the point of the resumé has never been just a C.V.; it has been the work, the fights, and especially the stories that came out of it all!

Gary is the author of almost 20 different books that explore his life, music, journalism, casinos, technology, history, philosophy, and noir adventures. View all books

GARY GREEN second-generation marketing innovator, he continues to make his presence known as a living and true renaissance boomer of music, business, technology, literature, finance, production, international business development, and casino gaming. In the 1960's he purportedly had one of the 22 nd highest IQ's ever recorded (based on the 1960 Terman and Merrill revision of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale); a badge that Gary scoffingly rejects as “pure hocum”. As a labor union leader, he was one of the masterminds of the single largest organizing drive in American history; so effective that 30 years later a major Las Vegas slot machine manufacturer canceled a casino speaking engagement, fearing that their employees might be inspired to sign union cards after hearing Gary’s life story. On the cutting edge of the 1970’s avant-garde twilight zone between coming-of-age baby boomers and the rest of America, one week Gary would be at the side of a veteran member of Congress giving policy or strategic advice and the next week in Greenwich Village playing guitar in one of the dimly lit, crowd-packed coffee houses. The Baltimore Sun best described Gary's ability to touch, convince, and motivate broad-based audiences: “Mr. Green had them: a young couple with a three-week old baby, a couple well into middle age and approximately equal numbers of those who seemed to remember the Fifties, and those who looked to have been children in the Sixties, not of them." Born in North Carolina and raised in the hills of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia, Gary Green is a braided paradox of simple, working-class Southerners and the high-tech, urban intelligentsia. With a southern charm more akin to John "Doc" Holiday and Rhett Butler than The Cable-Guy and the redneck set, he is often referred to as one of the last southern gentleman scoundrels.He served his apprenticeship singing folkie-acoustic versions of Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings, and Johnny Cash songs in New York City folk circles and as a daily newspaper reporter in the South covering the goriest of murders, drug raids, and government corruptions. Hence, others knew him as an award-winning journalist that had twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize ... before the age of thirty. From organizing a topical music project with Broadside Magazine, Pete Seeger, and the late folksingers Phil Ochs and Rev. Fred Kirkpatrick, to allegedly "running guns" for Native Americans at the siege of Wounded Knee to passing in and out of the "Berlin Wall" in old East Germany, to midnight drug raids in the company of heavily armed southern cops, to early morning Washington meetings with members of Congress and heads of state, to creation of new Internet technologies to being a professional gambler and later a top casino executive; the world of Gary Green is a world of adventure.