Anthony Lander Horwitz was an American journalist and author who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
12 Facts About Tony Horwitz
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Tony Horwitz's books include One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback, Baghdad Without a Map, Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes, A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, and Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide.
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Tony Horwitz was born in Washington, DC, the son of Norman Harold Horwitz, a neurosurgeon, and Elinor Lander Horwitz, a writer.
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Tony Horwitz was an alumnus of Sidwell Friends School, in Washington, DC 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.
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Tony 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.
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Tony Horwitz worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker and as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
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Tony Horwitz documented his venture into e-publishing and reaching best-seller status in that venue in an opinion article for The New York Times.
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Tony Horwitz's 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.
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Tony Horwitz 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.
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Tony Horwitz married the Australian writer Geraldine Brooks in France in 1984.
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On May 27,2019, Tony Horwitz collapsed while walking in Washington, DC He was taken to George Washington University Hospital, where he was declared dead; the cause was cardiac arrest.
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Tony Horwitz was in the midst of a book tour for Spying on the South.