Jon Lee Anderson

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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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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