Anthony Swofford

Anthony Swofford is the author of Jarhead: a marines chronicle of the Gulf war and other battles. He served in a United States marine corps platoon during the 1991 Gulf War. He has taught at Lewis & Clark College and Saint Marys College. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, Harpers, and the Guardian.

America through an Iraqi lens

Dear Anthony Swofford, First of all, I salute you, because you have changed from a United States marines sniper into a writer who thinks, meditates, and reconsiders his views in

By Anthony Swofford and Faiza al-Araji

/ 10 Oct 2004