Scott Johnson has been a foriegn correspondent for Newsweek for the past twelve years, reporting extensively from Africa and the Middle East. He is working on a memoir about growing up with a father who worked as a CIA operative.
‘Sometimes, these sorts of details made their way into wire stories as bullet-pointed footnotes. Other times, the stories screamed into the lives of people I knew.’
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