Scott Anderson is a journalist and novelist whose stories on conflict have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, Men’s Journal and other publications. He has co-authored two books with his brother and fellow reporter Jon Lee Anderson. His piece "Fractured Lands," which chronicled the last two and a half decades in the Middle East through the lives of six people, appeared in the August 14, 2016 issue of The New York Times Magazine.