Occupation Journalist, writer Nationality American | Name Tony Horwitz Role Journalist | |
 | ||
Born Anthony Lander Horwitz June 9, 1958 (age 65) Washington D.C. ( 1958-06-09 ) Genre Non-fiction, travel and description, military history, biography Subject Civil War, maritime discoveries Children Bizu Horwitz, Nathaniel Horwitz Parents Elinor Lander Horwitz, Norman Harold Horwitz Education Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Sidwell Friends School, Brown University, Columbia University Books Confederates in the Attic, Midnight Rising: John Bro, A Voyage Long and Strange, Blue Latitudes: Boldly Go, Baghdad without a map - and Similar People Geraldine Brooks, James Cook, Kit Brennan | ||
Tony horwitz a voyage long and strange
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).
Contents
- Tony horwitz a voyage long and strange
- Aspen words presents slopeside with geraldine brooks tony horwitz
- Early life and education
- Writing career
- Personal life
- Works
- References
Aspen words presents slopeside with geraldine brooks tony horwitz
Early life and education
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.
Writing career
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.
Personal life
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.