Tony Horwitz

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Tony Horwitz (born June 9, 1958 in Washington, DC ; † May 27, 2019 there ) was an American journalist and author of non-fiction books .

Career

Horwitz was a graduate of Brown University and the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University . Among other things, he was foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in India , Australia , Europe , Africa and the Middle East . After returning to the United States, he received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Domestic Reporting and worked as a salaried journalist for The New Yorker before setting up as a freelance writer.

Horwitz became known as an author through travel literature. His first book, Australia's Outback: Hitchhiking inland , tells of the journey he made through the outback when he followed his wife Geraldine Brooks to her native Australia . When Brooks took a job as a foreign correspondent in Cairo in 1987 , Horwitz's second book, Baghdad Without a Map , was written, which tells of his experiences in the Middle East. After moving back to the USA in Virginia in 1993, Horwitz describes his journey through the southern states and his impressions of the aftermath of the Civil War on America in Confederates in the Attic . For Cook: The discovery of an explorer , he followed the itineraries of James Cook and contrasted Cook's reports with today's events. In It Wasn't Columbus: The True Discoverers of the New World , he prepares the discovery of the American continent for the pilgrim fathers and follows the paths of the Vikings to L'Anse aux Meadows and the Spanish conquistadors through what is now the USA.

Horwitz lived with his wife and two sons in Martha's Vineyard , Massachusetts .

Works

  • One for the road - a hitchhikers outback. Harper & Row, Sydney et al. a. 1987. In German as:
Australia's outback: hitchhiking through the interior. Translated by Julia Edenhofer, Frederking and Thaler Munich 1991, ISBN = 3-89405-060-8.
  • Baghdad Without a Map: And Other Misadventures in Arabia . Penguin Books, 1991, ISBN 0-525-24960-5 .
  • Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War . Pantheon, 1998, ISBN 0-679-43978-1 .
  • Cook: An Explorer's Discovery . Mareverlag, Hamburg, 2004, ISBN 3-936384-89-4 .
  • It wasn't Columbus: the true explorers of the New World . Mareverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86648-093-3 .
  • Spying on the South. An Odyssey across the American Divide. Penguin, New York 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sam Roberts: Tony Horwitz dies at 60. , In: The New York Times , May 28, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Horwitz, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2019
Place of death Washington, DC