title: Eric Lyman
text: Eric J. Lyman is an American journalist, writer and ghost writer.
  
  Lyman graduated from Florida State University. He has written on topics from South America, including the thesis that the border conflict between Peru and Ecuador could be based on pre-Columbian Inca roots, and was the first to break the story that the U.S. government was guilty of using illegal poison to eradicate coca crops in the Amazon jungle, contributing to a reversal of U.S. policy in this area.
  
  His work has been published in periodicals, including the Xinhua, San Francisco Chronicle, National Geographic News, Reason Magazine, USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, UPI and The Wall Street Journal. He is also an editor and columnist for The American, a monthly magazine published in Rome.
  
  References
  
  External links
  ericjlyman.com
  
  1965 births
  Florida State University alumni
  American male journalists
  American columnists
  American magazine editors
  Women magazine editors
  American investigative journalists
  21st-century American historians
  21st-century American male writers
  Living people
  20th-century American journalists
  American male non-fiction writers