Jon Lee Anderson
Investigative reporter & war correspondent
Jon Lee Anderson is a journalist, investigative reporter and war correspondent. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1998.
He began his reporting career in 1979, in Peru, followed by several years in Central America and has maintained a close relationship to the region ever since, reporting from there frequently and giving journalism workshops to Latin-American reporters. Since then, he has covered numerous international conflicts, including in Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, Angola, Mali, Liberia, and the Central African Republic. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, El Pais, Internazionale, The Financial Times, The Guardian, TIME, The Nation, and others.
He has been honored by the Overseas Press Club, and in 2013, was awarded a Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Jon Lee is also a celebrated biographer, essayist and the author of books on contemporary conflict, military campaigns and political leadership. He is renowned for his numerous profiles of political leaders, including Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Augusto Pinochet. He is a chairperson of the Colombia-based Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation for Journalism.
Books:
The Fall of Baghdad, 2004
The Lion’s Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan, 2002
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, 1997
Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World, 1992