Tony Horwitz - Biography

Tony Horwitz (born June 9, 1958) is an American journalist and writer. His works include Blue Latitudes or Into the Blue, One for the Road, Confederates In The Attic, Baghdad Without A Map, and A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World. His next book Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War will be published in October 2011.

Biography

Horwitz was born Anthony Lander Horwitz in Washington, DC, the son of Norman Harold Horwitz and Elinor Lander Horwitz, a writer of young adult and adult books. Horwitz is an alumnus of Sidwell Friends School, in Washington, DC, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa as a history major from Brown University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and 1994 James Aronson Award, for his stories about working conditions in low-wage America published in The Wall Street Journal, where he also worked as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. He also worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker.

Horwitz married the Australian writer and fellow Pulitzer recipient Geraldine Brooks in France in 1984. After formerly dividing their time between homes in Waterford, Virginia and Sydney, Australia, they now live with their sons Nathaniel and Bizu in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Bibliography

• Baghdad Without A Map, Angus & Robertson, 1991, ISBN 9780207171680
• Confederates in the Attic, Pantheon Books, 1998, ISBN 9780679439783
• One for the Road, Vintage Books, 1999, ISBN 9780375706134
• Blue Latitudes, Macmillan, 2002, ISBN 9780805065411
  • Into the Blue, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9780747564553
• The Devil May Care: 50 Intrepid Americans and Their Quest for the Unknown, Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 9780195169225
• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, Henry Holt, 2008, ISBN 9780805076035
• Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, Henry Holt, 2011, ISBN 9780805091533

External links

• Writer's Talk Interview
• Author's Official Website