<p><b><br>scott anderson </b>is a war correspondent and a contributing writer at the<i> New York Times Magazine</i>. His work has also appeared in <i>Vanity Fair</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, <i>Harper’s</i>, <i>Outside</i>, and many other publications. Over the years he has written from Beirut, Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Israel, Sudan, Sarajevo, El Salvador, and a number of other war-torn areas. He is the author of the novel <i>Triage</i> and the nonfiction books <i>The 4 O’Clock