Tony Horwitz (1958–2019)
Auteur van Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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Anthony Lander Horwitz was born in Washington, D. C. on June 9, 1958. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Brown University and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. After working as a union organizer in Mississippi, he became a newspaper toon meer reporter. He was an education reporter for The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel in Indiana from 1983 to 1984 and a general assignment reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald in Australia from 1985 to 1987. He joined The Wall Street Journal in 1990 as a foreign correspondent in Europe and the Middle East. He and his wife Geraldine Brooks won the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award in 1990 for their coverage of the Persian Gulf war. He returned to the United States in 1993 and was assigned to The Journal's Pittsburgh bureau. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his accounts of working conditions in low-wage jobs. He later wrote for The New Yorker on the Middle East before becoming an author of nonfiction books. His first book, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, was published in 1998. His other books included Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, 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. He died on May 27, 2019 at the age of 60. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Ontwarringsbericht:
(eng) Tony Horwitz was born Anthony Horwitz, not to be confused with British author Anthony Horowitz (sometimes misspelled as Horwitz), the author of Stormbreaker.
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- Horwitz, Tony
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- Horwitz, Anthony Lander
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- 1958-06-09
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2019-05-27
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- Washington, D.C., USA
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- Washington, D.C., USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- cardiac arrest
- Woonplaatsen
- Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
Waterford, Virginia, USA
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Opleiding
- Brown University (BA|History|1981)
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (MA|1983)
Sidwell Friends School - Beroepen
- journalist
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- Brooks, Geraldine (1) (wife)
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New Yorker magazine
New York Times
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- Pulitzer Prize (National Reporting ∙ 1995)
James Aronson Award (1994) - Agent
- Kris Dahl
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- Tony Horwitz was born Anthony Horwitz, not to be confused with British author Anthony Horowitz (sometimes misspelled as Horwitz), the author of Stormbreaker.
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very interesting. I have enjoyed several other books by this author which belnded the past and the present and had a considerable amount of humorous content. This one stays firmly in the past , and there is very little to laugh at, but a lot to learn,. Brings history alive
loved this book. Horwitz exposes me to people I probably wouldn't otherwise encounter, like the "aryan" civil war freaks in his other book, the new zelanders who use the swastika symbol apall and fascinate at the same time. How do people come to think and act this way.. the book has some answers. But don't get the wrong idea, mostly it is equal parts humor and history lesson and all fun
Fabulous book. I've always wondered about Brown, who seemed like a first class wing nut. And there's no doubt he wasn't entirely mentally stable. But if you want some idea of how he got to Harpers Ferry, this book will help. Horwitz also accurately places him in historical context. Wonderful book!
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This time he is tracing the journeys of Frederick Olmsted in the south. It was interesting and I learned a few things ( the patron Saint of drug dealers, for instance.)
Horwitz does a good job of trying to elucidate why seemingly normal people come to have some fairly extreme views, though it’s not as stark and surprising as confederates was… (meer)