September 17, 2013
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September 17, 2013
Scott Anderson is a veteran war correspondent, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. Over the years he has reported from Beirut, Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Israel, Sudan, Sarajevo, El Salvador and many other war-torn countries. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel Triage, as well as the nonfiction book The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny and, with his brother Jon Lee Anderson, War Zones. His most recent book is Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East.