# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-lee-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:34:52.341Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-lee-anderson"
name: "Jon Lee Anderson"
slug: "jon-lee-anderson"
description: "Jon Lee Anderson is an American journalist, investigative reporter, author, biographer, war correspondent, and staff writer for The New Yorker, reporting from war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Uganda, Palestine, El Salvador, Ireland, Lebanon, Iran, and throughout the Middle East, as well as during Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts with K38 Water Safety as documented in The New Yorker article \"Leaving Desire\". Anderson has also reported or written for the Lima Times, Harper's Magazine, Life, and The Nation. Anderson has profiled various political leaders, such as Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Augusto Pinochet."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Lee_Anderson_2010.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-01-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4525862068965515
  historical:           13.673476
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0026967"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump