Born in 1957 in California. He is one of The New Yorker’s great chroniclers. He has written for such prominent publications as the New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, El País, Harper’s and Time. He has written profiles of Fidel Castro, Gabriel García Márquez, Augusto Pinochet, Saddam Hussein and Hugo Chávez, among others…
He has covered various wars around the world. His books include: War Zones (co-written with his brother Scott Anderson); Guerrillas, journeys in the insurgent world, which deals with El Salvador, Western Sahara, Gaza, Afghanistan and Burma; the biography Che Guevara: a revolutionary life; The lion’s grave: dispatches from Afghanistan, and The Fall of Baghdad.