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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, 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

External links

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