PERSON: Jon Fasman

Washington correspondent

Jon Fasman is the Washington Correspondent, having previously been South-East Asia bureau chief and Atlanta correspondent. In addition to his work for The Economist, he is also the author of two novels, both published by The Penguin Press: “The Geographer’s Library,” which was a New York Times bestseller in 2005 and has been translated into more than a dozen languages; and “The Unpossessed City,” which was published in autumn of 2008 and was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award.

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