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A senior writer for the wall street journal and winner of the 1995 pulitzer prize for national reporting, he has also written for the new yorker and harpers, among other publications. Swept off to live in sydney by his australian bride, american writer tony horwitz longs to explore the. Does tony horwitzs new book, spying on the south, get. 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. After a year working an office job in sydney, author and pulitzer prizewinning newspaperman. Tony horwitzs greatgrandfather isaac moses perski came to america from tsarist russia in 1882, a penniless teenager, and one of the first things he bought in his new country was a book, an. Baghdad without a map and other misadventures in arabia. Humorist and pulitzer prizewinning journalist tony horwitzs vicarious voyages span everything from modernday civil war reenactments to longforgotten courses of discovery.
Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read one for the road. I loved confederates in the attic and baghdad without a map and looked forward to reading one for the road, his very first book which describes his adventures hitchhiking across the. Pulitzerwinning journalist and author tony horwitz has died of apparent cardiac arrest. His most recent work, published in may 2019, is spying on the south, which follows frederick law olmsteds travels from the potomac to the rio grande as an undercover correspondent in the 1850s. Remembering tony horwitz, a historian who reckoned fearlessly. Tony horwitz books list of books by author tony horwitz. Remembering tony horwitz, a historian who reckoned. Sifting through boxes stashed at their house on marthas vineyard, horwitz came across the cotton kingdom, an 1861 book by the new york journalist frederick law olmstedbetter known today as. Tony horwitz was a collector of the worlds great characters, and he used. Tony horwitz is the author of one for the road and of the bestselling baghdad without a map. An outback adventure vintage departures by horwitz, tony and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Jan 01, 1987 one for the road is the second travel memoir ive read about australia, and the second one ive loved. He spent a decade overseas as a foreign correspondent, mainly covering wars and conflicts for the wall street journal. May 28, 2019 heartbreaking to hear about tony horwitz.
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