Tony Horwitz (1958–2019)
Autor/a de Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) Tony Horwitz was born Anthony Horwitz, not to be confused with British author Anthony Horowitz (sometimes misspelled as Horwitz), the author of Stormbreaker.
Crèdit de la imatge: Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Obres de Tony Horwitz
BOOM: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey… (2014) 35 exemplars
A Voyage Long and Strange Reprint edition 1 exemplars
The Civil War Monitor, Embattled Banner 1 exemplars
Confederates in the Attic. 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Civil War Monitor. Volume 5, Number 3, Fall 2015 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Horwitz, Tony
- Nom oficial
- Horwitz, Anthony Lander
- Data de naixement
- 1958-06-09
- Data de defunció
- 2019-05-27
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Causa de la mort
- cardiac arrest
- Llocs de residència
- Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
Waterford, Virginia, USA
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Educació
- Brown University (BA|History|1981)
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (MA|1983)
Sidwell Friends School - Professions
- journalist
author - Relacions
- Brooks, Geraldine (1) (wife)
- Organitzacions
- The Wall Street Journal
New Yorker magazine
New York Times
Society of American Historians - Premis i honors
- Pulitzer Prize (National Reporting ∙ 1995)
James Aronson Award (1994) - Agent
- Kris Dahl
- Nota de desambiguació
- 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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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 12
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 8,921
- Popularitat
- #2,694
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 256
- ISBN
- 90
- Llengües
- 7
- Preferit
- 33
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… (més)