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- Jon Lee Anderson was born on January 15, 1957 in California, USA. He is known for Che: Part One (2008), Che: Part Two (2008) and Syriana (2005). He is married to Erica. They have three children.
- SpouseErica(? - present) (3 children)
- Brother-in-law of Nanette Burstein.
- Brother of Scott Anderson (XV).
- 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, Jon Lee Anderson was raised and educated in South Korea, Colombia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Liberia, England, and the United States. A staff writer for the "New Yorker" (starting in 1998) he became famous for his regular "Letters from Baghad" about the war in Iraq. He began his career as a reporter for Peru's English-language weekly, The Lima Times, and reported for Time magazine in Central America.
- Living in West Dorset, England, with his wife and children, but frequently travels to the Mideast to report on conflicts there.
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