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Jon Lee Anderson
Jon Lee Anderson has been contributing to THE NEW YORKER since 1998 and became a staff writer in 1999. He spent extensive amounts of time reporting from Iraq both during and after the war in 2003 and has covered the conflicts in Afghanistan and Angola. Anderson has also profiled Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Saddam Hussein, and examined the literary influence of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Anderson is the author of several books including THE LION'S GRAVE: DISPATCHES FROM AFGHANISTAN, CHE GUEVARA: A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE, and GUERRILLAS and the co-author, with Scott Anderson, of WAR ZONES: VOICES FROM THE WORLD'S KILLING GROUNDS and INSIDE THE LEAGUE. He has written the prologues to a number of books including "NTOLOGIA DE LA DECADA, an anthology of Colombian journalism, and FIDEL'S CUBA, a photographic book on Cuba.
He began his career as a reporter for the English-language weekly The Lima Times in Lima, Peru and was a reporter for Time magazine in Central America. His work has been published in the NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORK TIMES, HARPER'S, THE NATION, LIFE, THE GUARDIAN, EL PAIS, LE MONDE, DER SPIEGEL, INTERNAZIONALE, FOLHA DE SAO PAOLO, TRES PUNTOS, GATOPARDO, and other journals and has been involved with television documentaries on Panama, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Bosnia.
Born in California, Mr. Anderson was raised and educated in South Korea, Colombia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Liberia, England, and the United States. He currently lives in Dorset, England with his wife and three children.
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