Tony Horwitz
| Tony Horwitz | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anthony Lander Horwitz June 9, 1958 Washington D.C. |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Sidwell Friends School, Brown University, Columbia School of Journalism |
| Genre | Non-fiction, travel and description, military history, biography |
| Subject | Civil War, maritime discoveries |
| Notable awards | 1994 James Aronson Award, 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting |
| Spouse | Geraldine Brooks (m. 1984) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | |
| http://www.tonyhorwitz.com/ | |
Tony Horwitz (born June 9, 1958) is an American journalist and author who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. His books include One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback (1987), Baghdad Without a Map (1991), Confederates in the Attic (1998), Blue Latitudes (AKA Into the Blue) (2002), A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (2008), and his most recent book Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (2011).
Horwitz was born Anthony Lander Horwitz in Washington, D.C., the son of Norman Harold Horwitz, a neurosurgeon, and Elinor Lander Horwitz, a writer. Horwitz is an alumnus of Sidwell Friends School, in Washington, D.C. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa as a history major from Brown University and received a master's degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
He won a 1994 James Aronson Award and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his stories about working conditions in low-wage America published in The Wall Street Journal. He also worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker and as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
He documented his venture into e-publishing and reaching best-seller status in that venue in an opinion article for The New York Times.
Horwitz married the Australian writer Geraldine Brooks in France, in 1984. She has also won the Pulitzer Prize, in 2006, for her novel, March (2005). They have two children.
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