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Tony Horwitz

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Tony Horwitz
Horwitz in 2002
Horwitz in 2002
BornAnthony Lander Horwitz
(1958-06-09)June 9, 1958
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedMay 27, 2019(2019-05-27) (aged 60)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
OccupationJournalist, writer
EducationBrown University (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
GenreNon-fiction, travel and description, military history, biography
SubjectCivil War, maritime discoveries
Notable awards1994 James Aronson Award, 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Spouse
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(m. 1984)​
Children2[1]
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Anthony Lander Horwitz (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was 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, Baghdad Without a Map, Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes (AKA Into the Blue), A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World,[2] Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (2011),[3] and Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide.[4]

Early life and education[edit]

He was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Norman Harold Horwitz, a neurosurgeon,[5] and Elinor Lander Horwitz, a writer. Horwitz was 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.

Writing career[edit]

Horwitz 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.[6]

He documented his venture into e-publishing and reaching best-seller status in that venue in an opinion article for The New York Times.[7]

In 2019 he began writing and lecturing for the Gertrude Polk Brown Lecture Series at The Filson Historical Society. His book Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide focuses on the early New York Times journalist and correspondent Frederick Law Olmsted's travels through the South.[8]

He was a fellow at the Radcliffe College Center of Advanced Study and a past president of the Society of American Historians, which in 2020 established the Tony Horwitz Prize honoring distinguished work in American history of wide appeal and enduring public significance.[9][10]

Personal life[edit]

Horwitz married the Australian writer Geraldine Brooks in France in 1984.[11] They had two children.

On May 27, 2019, Horwitz collapsed while walking in Washington, D.C. He was taken to George Washington University Hospital, where he was declared dead; the cause was cardiac arrest.[12] He was in the midst of a book tour for Spying on the South.[13]

Bibliography[edit]

  • One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback. Harper & Row Publishers. 1987. ISBN 978-0063120952. OCLC 26195613.
  • Baghdad Without A Map. Angus & Robertson. 1991. ISBN 978-0-207-17168-0.
  • Confederates in the Attic. Pantheon Books. 1998. ISBN 978-0-679-43978-3.
  • Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before. Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8050-6541-1. OCLC 49626343.; British edition: Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2002. ISBN 978-0-7475-6455-3.
  • The Devil May Care: 50 Intrepid Americans and Their Quest for the Unknown. Oxford University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-19-516922-5. OCLC 52477250.
  • A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World. Henry Holt. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8050-7603-5. OCLC 180989602.
  • Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. Henry Holt. 2011. ISBN 978-0-8050-9153-3. OCLC 697267337.
  • BOOM: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. Amazon Digital Services. 2014.
  • Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. Penguin Press. 2019.[14][15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "New College hosts Global Leadership Luncheon - Nimbe". Nimbe.
  2. ^ Horwitz, Tony (2008). A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World. Holt, Henry & Company, Inc. ISBN 9780805076035.
  3. ^ Horwitz, Tony (2011). Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. Henry Holt and Co. ASIN B00AZ8C8PM.
  4. ^ Horwitz, Tony (2019). Spying on the South : An Odyssey Across the American Divide. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 9781101980286.
  5. ^ "Norman Horwitz, neurosurgeon who operated on D.C. police officer wounded in Reagan assassination attempt, dies at 87". Washington Post. October 3, 2012.
  6. ^ Tony Horwitz. "Tony Horwitz". The Atlantic.
  7. ^ Horwitz, Tony (June 19, 2014). "I Was a Digital Best Seller!". The New York Times.
  8. ^ "Spying on the South". Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  9. ^ "Spying on the South". Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  10. ^ "Tony Horwitz Prize | Society of American Historians". sah.columbia.edu. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
  11. ^ Palevsky, Stacey (January 25, 2008). "The wandering Haggadah". J. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
  12. ^ Roberts, Sam (May 28, 2019). "Tony Horwitz Dies at 60; Prize-Winning Journalist and Best-Selling Author". The New York Times. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  13. ^ Eville, Bill (May 28, 2019). "Author, Historian Tony Horwitz Dies". Vineyard Gazette. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  14. ^ Horwitz, Tony (2019). Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. New York. ISBN 978-1-101-98028-6. OCLC 1079399605.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. ^ Review by David W. Blight.

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