Jon Lee Anderson

Jon Lee Anderson is an author and a staff writer for The New Yorker. A longtime observer of political violence and revolutionary movements, he has reported from many war zones and frequently from Latin America, where he began his career as a reporter for the Lima Times in Peru. For The New Yorker, he has written in-depth profiles of Gabriel García Márquez, Augusto Pinochet, Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro, and Nicolás Maduro, among others. He is the author of seven books, most recently To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban. He lives with his wife in Bridport, England.