Jon Lee Anderson has written for The New Yorker since 1998, reporting from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Somalia, Cuba, Liberia, and many other countries. He has also profiled a number of contemporary political leaders, including Augusto Pinochet, Hugo Chávez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Hamid Karzai. Among his books are Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, The Fall of Baghdad, and The Lion’s Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan. In 2009, he won an Overseas Press Club Award for a story about life in Rio de Janeiro’s gangland.