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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 ''Confederates in the Attic'' (1998) is a work of non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tony Horwitz. Horwitz explores his deep interest in the American Civil War and investigates the ties in the United States among citizens to a war th ...
'', ''
Blue Latitudes ''Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before'' (United States), or ''Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before'' (Australia), is a travel book by Tony Horwitz, published in 2002. In it, the Pulitzer Pri ...
'' (AKA ''Into the Blue''), ''A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World'', ''Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War'' (2011), and ''Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide''.


Early life and education

He was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Norman Harold Horwitz, a neurosurgeon, and Elinor Lander Horwitz, a writer. Horwitz was an alumnus of Sidwell Friends School, in Washington, D.C. He graduated
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as a history major from
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and received a master's degree at the
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.


Writing career

Horwitz won a 1994
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and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his stories about working conditions in low-wage America published in ''
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''. He also worked as a staff writer for ''
The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...
'' 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 ''
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''. 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 ''
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'' journalist and correspondent
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's travels through the South. He was a fellow at the
Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...
Center of Advanced Study and a past president of the
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, which in 2020 established the Tony Horwitz Prize honoring distinguished work in American history of wide appeal and enduring public significance.


Personal life

Horwitz married the Australian writer Geraldine Brooks in France in 1984. They had two children. On May 27, 2019, Horwitz collapsed while walking in
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He was taken to George Washington University Hospital, where he was declared dead; the cause was cardiac arrest. He was in the midst of a book tour for ''Spying on the South''.


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Writer's Talk Interview
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