- Brother-in-law of Nanette Burstein.
- Brother of Scott Anderson (XV).
- 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.
- Living in West Dorset, England, with his wife and children, but frequently travels to the Mideast to report on conflicts there. (August 2006)
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