Tony Horwitz
Tony Horwitz was a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. As a newspaper reporter he spent a decade overseas, mainly covering wars and conflict in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans for The Wall Street Journal . Returning to the U.S., he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and wrote for The New Yorker before becoming a full-time author. His books include the national and New York Times bestsellers,...See more
Tony Horwitz was a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. As a newspaper reporter he spent a decade overseas, mainly covering wars and conflict in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans for The Wall Street Journal . Returning to the U.S., he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and wrote for The New Yorker before becoming a full-time author. His books include the national and New York Times bestsellers, Confederates in the Attic , Blue Latitudes , Baghdad Without a Map and A Voyage Long and Strange . Midnight Rising was named a New York Times Notable Book in 2011 and one of the year's ten best books by Library Journal . Tony was also a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the president of the Society of American Historians. He died in May 2019, and is survived by his wife Geraldine Brooks and their two sons, Nathaniel and Bizu. See less
Tony Horwitz's Featured Books
Tony Horwitz book reviews
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One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
by MTeresa, Dec 3, 2009
Another fun adventure that will keep anybody laughing for a long time. Tony Horwitz has a lot of guts doing what he does and I hope to read more from him. Read More
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Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
by MTeresa, Dec 3, 2009
Love Tony Horwitz books, they are funny from the start and they will change your way you look at the world and the people, or confirm what you believed all along. We are not perfect but some are ... Read More