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.