Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.
He tells stories of his childhood, covering the 1989 student uprising in China's Tiananmen Square, the genocide in Darfur and the devastation that came to his hometown due to lack of opportunities and Methamphetamine.