Jon Lee Anderson isan American author and journalist who began his career in the early 1980s, reporting on Central America’s civil wars for TIME magazine and other journals. As a New Yorkerstaff writer since 1998, he has covered numerous international conflicts, including those in Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, Angola, Mali, Liberia, and Central African Republic.  He has reported extensively on Latin America as well, writing on Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and numerous other countries. He is on the board of the Colombia-based Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation for Journalism, and regularly teaches workshops for Latin American reporters. Anderson has profiled a number of international public figures such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Hamid Karzai, Mahmoud Ahmadinajad and Charles  Taylor,  the  Liberian  war  criminal.  He  has  won  a  number  of awards, including Columbia University’s 2013 Maria Moors Cabot award for his reporting on Latin America. Anderson  is  also  the  author  of  a  biography  of  the  iconic  Marxist revolutionary    Ernesto    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 skeletal remains, after which they were exhumed and returned to Cuba. Anderson has written several other books, including Guerrillas: Journeys in  the  Insurgent  World;  The  Lion's  Grave:  Dispatches  from  Afghanistan, andThe Fall of Baghdad. He is also the coauthor of Inside the Leagueand War  Zones: Voices from the World’s Killing Groundswith  his  brother Scott Anderson.