Richard Gladwell is an international sailing journalist and photographer who lives in New Zealand. He began sailing when he was ten years old and first wrote about the America's Cup five years later. A Kiwi representative sailor, he competed internationally in dinghies and keelboats for 12 years, sailing with and against some of the current senior members of Emirates Team New Zealand. He has covered the America's Cup and Team New Zealand in its various renditions for the past 35 years. Lone Wolf, his book on New Zealand’s victory in the 2017 America’s Cup was a bestseller.