What is Tony Horwitz?
'''Anthony Lander Horwitz''' (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] journalist and author. He won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1995. His books include ''One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback'' (1987), ''Baghdad Without a Map'' (1991), ''[[Confederates in the Attic]]'' (1998), ''[[Blue Latitudes]]'' (also known as ''Into the Blue'') (2002), ''A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World'' (2008) and ''Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War'' (2011). In 1994, he won the [[James Aronson Award]]. In 1995, he won the [[Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting]] for stories about conditions of low-income workers in the US, published in ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''. He also wrote for ''[[The New Yorker]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]''. Horwitz was born in [[Washington, D.C.]] to a [[Jewish]] family. He married Australian writer [[Geraldine Brooks (writer)|Geraldine Brooks]] in 1984. She won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in 2006 for her novel, ''March'' (2005). The couple had two children. Horwitz died on May 27, 2019 in Washington, D.C., at the age of 60.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2019/05/28/author-historian-tony-horwitz-dies|title=Author, Historian Tony Horwitz Dies|author=Eville, Bill|date=May 28, 2019|access-date=May 28, 2019|work=Vineyard Gazette}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== *{{Official website|http://www.tonyhorwitz.com/}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Horwitz, Tony}} [[Category:1958 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Jewish American writers]] [[Category:Pulitzer Prize winners]] [[Category:Journalists from Washington, D.C.]] [[Category:Writers from Washington, D.C.]] {{US-bio-stub}}