Tony Horwitz

For the British novelist, see Anthony Horowitz.

Anthony Lander Horwitz (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was an American journalist and author who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

Tony Horwitz
Horwitz in 2002
Born	Anthony Lander Horwitz (1958-06-09)June 9, 1958 Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died	May 27, 2019(2019-05-27) (aged 60) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation	Journalist, writer
Education	Brown University (BA) Columbia University (MA)
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^[1]
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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

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

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

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

• 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

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, the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California. 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.

External links

• Official website  
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Writer's Talk Interview