Jon Lee Anderson

Jon Lee Anderson

Jon Lee Anderson (born January 15, 1957) is a biographer, author, international investigative reporter, and staff writer for "The New Yorker", reporting from warzone locales such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Uganda, Israel, El Salvador, Ireland, Lebanon, Iran, and throughout the Middle East. Anderson has also written for "The New York Times", "Harper's", "Life", and "The Nation".

Anderson began working as a reporter in 1979 for the Lima Times in Peru. During the 1980s he covered Central America, first for the syndicated columnist Jack Anderson and later for Time magazine

Anderson is also the author of the best-selling and definitive 800 + page biography of the iconic Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. Entitled "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life", it was first published in 1997. While researching the book in Bolivia, he discovered the hidden location of Guevara's burial from where his skeletal remains were exhumed in 1997.

Personal life

The son of Dr. Joy Anderson, a children's book author and University of Florida teacher, and of John Anderson, a diplomat and agricultural adviser for USAID and the Peace Corps, Anderson was raised and educated in South Korea, Colombia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Liberia, England, and the United States. He currently resides in Dorset, England with his wife and three children.

Authored books

* "Guerrillas: Journeys In the Insurgent World." (hardcover) 1992. (paperback) Penguin Books, 2004. ISBN 0142004979
* "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life." Grove Press, 1997. ISBN 0802116000
* "The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan." Grove Press, 2002. ISBN 0802117236
* "The Fall of Baghdad" New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. ISBN 1594200343

External links

* [http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~book~1890 "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life", by Jon Lee Anderson]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_12_36/ai_n8640876 Jon Lee Anderson avoided hanging out with U.S.troops and wrote the best book on the Iraq war]
* [http://colombiacalling.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-lee-anderson-on-chavez-che-and.html "Jon Lee Anderson on Chavez, Che, and Colombia", January 31 2008]
*LA Times: [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-anderson20feb20,0,6255929.story "Fidel's Slow Fade", by Jon Lee Anderson, Feb 20 2008]
*NY Times: [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E6DB1E31F937A35756C0A961958260 "Questions For: Jon Lee Anderson", May 4 1997]
* [http://www.meettheauthor.com/bookbites/572.html Meet the Author: Jon Lee Anderson]
*PBS: [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/beyond/interviews/anderson.html "Beyond Baghdad", Interview with Jon Lee Anderson from Iraq, Dec 7 2003]
* PBS Forum: [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/november97/che1.html The Legacy of Che Guevara] with Jon Lee Anderson
*The New Yorker: [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact_anderson?printable=true "Castro’s Last Battle", by Jon Lee Anderson, July 31 2006]
*The New Yorker: [http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_power.html "The Power of Gabriel García Márquez", by Jon Lee Anderson, Sept 27 1999]
*The New Yorker: [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/07/09/070709fa_fact_anderson "The Taliban's Opium War", by Jon Lee Anderson, July 9 2007]
*Audio Interview: [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/opinions-2008/opinion-jun3008.html A talk with Jon Lee Anderson] Recorded at La Trobe University on 26th May, 2008.


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