Tony Horwitz

For the British novelist, see Anthony Horowitz.

Tony Horwitz
Born	Anthony Lander Horwitz (1958-06-09) June 9, 1958 Washington D.C.
Occupation	Journalist, writer
Nationality	American
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)
Website
http://www.tonyhorwitz.com/

Tony Horwitz (born June 9, 1958) is an American journalist and writer. His works include Blue Latitudes or Into the Blue (2002), Confederates In The Attic (1998), A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (2008), and his most recent book Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (2011).

Early life and education

Horwitz was born Anthony Lander Horwitz in Washington, D.C., 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, 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

He won a 1994 James Aronson Award and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and 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.

He documented his venture into e-publishing and reaching best seller status in that venue in an opinion article for The New York Times.

Personal life

Horwitz married the Australian writer Geraldine Brooks in France, in 1984. She has also won the Pulitzer Prize, in 2006, for her novel, March (2005).

External links

• Author's official website
• Writer's Talk Interview