Tony Horwitz

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Tony Horwitz (born 1959) is an American journalist and writer. His works include Blue Latitudes, One for the Road, Confederates In The Attic and Baghdad Without A Map. His most recent work, published in April 2008, is A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, a history and travelogue dealing with the early European exploration of North America.

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Horwitz graduated as a history major from Brown University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his stories about working conditions in low-wage America published in The Wall Street Journal.

Horwitz married the Australian writer and fellow Pulitzer recipient Geraldine Brooks in France in 1984. After formerly dividing their time between homes in Waterford, Virginia and Sydney, Australia^[1], they now live with their son Nathaniel on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts^[2]. They follow the Jewish faith.