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Humorist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz's vicarious voyages span everything from modern-day Civil War re-enactments to long-forgotten courses of discovery. His charismatic chronicles of derring-do have garnered Horwitz a reputation for traveling where few men would dare to tread -- and writing about it so they don't have to.
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Fact File
| Name:
Tony Horwitz
Current Home:
Waterford, Virginia
Date of Birth:
1958
Place of Birth:
Washington, D.C.
| | Education:
B.A., Brown University; M.A., Columbia University School of Journalism
Awards:
Overseas Press Club Award for Foreign News Reporting, 1992; Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, 1995
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Family Affair
| Horowitz's wife, Geraldine Brooks, is a journalist and author herself -- most recently of Year of Wonders, a fictionalized account of a small English village during the days of the Bubonic Plague.
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| | Baghdad Without a Map: And Other Misadventures in Arabia
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Tony Horwitz
While published in 1991, this portrait of modern life in the Middle East remains readable and even timely. Horwitz sets down people and events as he sees them, with a minimum of editorializing; when one Iranian demonstrator talks about taking his kids to Disneyland, then resumes chanting "Death to America," the reader is left to ponder both the gulf between cultures and the apparently universal desire to ride in giant teacups.
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| | Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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Tony Horwitz
On why he wrote this unique look at Civil War re-enactments, Horowitz explained in an interview with his publisher, "I think a lot of people, myself included, feel oppressed by America's T.V. culture and strip-mall sameness. The Civil War's a way to flee all that, to enter a landscape and way of life that seem somehow more romantic and more real than our own."
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