SCOTT ANDERSON is the author of two novels and five works of nonfiction, including Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East, an international bestseller which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to his reportage across the Middle East in August 2016 – which was published in book form as Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart – and he is a contributing writer for The Sunday Times Magazine.