Introducing the Editor, Craig Glenday...

Meet the man who is the Editor in Chief of the biggest selling copyright book in history! With more than 100 million books sold around the world in more than 25 languages, it can’t be easy for this record breaking editor!

Craig’s first memory of Guinness World Records was being fascinated and terrified in equal measure by the experience of American park ranger Roy C. Sullivan. It was Christmas Day, and a ten-year-old Craig read, slack-jawed, about the man who survived a record seven lightning strikes (only to then take his own life, spurned in love).

From that moment on, Craig became obsessed with life’s extremes, although as a young boy he never considered the possibility that one day he might become the editor of the very book that first fired his interest.

Born in 1973 in Dundee, Scotland, Craig has come a long way to get to where he is now. He has been a church organist, a theatre-pit drummer, a food critic and even a medical photographer. But throughout it all, books have always been his passion. "I’d spend hours leafing through encyclopaedias and almanacs straining to commit snippets of information to memory", he recalls. To this day, he continues to look for fascinating facts... this time to fill the world’s best-selling copyright book.

Whether it’s choosing the cover design, researching new records, meeting childhood heroes or adjudicating the fastest turkey plucker, Craig works tirelessly to bring Guinness World Records to life.

For Craig, Guinness World Records is about setting yourself goals and working your hardest to achieve them. "People tell us that getting in the book is a dream they’ve had since childhood. It’s a fundamental thing about the human condition; people want to push themselves further. It’s why people cross seas and climb mountains, it’s why we travel into Space and create cures for diseases. It also allows you to position yourself in the world. Without knowing the extremities, it is impossible to know where you stand."

Craig also happens to be a member of the International Banana Club Museum, which is run by the holder of the Largest Banana collection. He’s also an honorary member of the Curing Old Age Disease Society, and a former Curly Wurly-stretching champion.