Anthony Leander Horwitz (1958 - 2019)

Born 9 Jun 1958 in Washington

Ancestors

Died 27 May 2019 at age 60 in Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States

Biography

Anthony Horwitz is Notable.

From the New York Post, By Sam Roberts, May 28, 2019 (a portion of a tribute to Tony Horwitz):

"Anthony Lander Horwitz was born on June 9, 1958, in Washington, the son of Dr. Norman Horwitz, a neurosurgeon, and Elinor (Lander) Horwitz, a writer. Dr. Horwitz was part of the team that operated successfully in 1981 on Officer Thomas Delahanty, who was shot in the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan."

"Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author. Mr. Horwitz was on the staff of The Wall Street Journal when he won the 1995 Pulitzer for national reporting for his vivid accounts of grim working conditions in low-wage jobs, including those at garbage recycling and poultry processing plants. He later wrote for The New Yorker on the Middle East before amplifying his brand of participatory journalism in nonfiction books. His immersion in the subculture of battlefield re-enactors led in 1998 to “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War,” which was a New York Times best seller.

He followed that with another Times best seller, “Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before” (2002), in which he retraced the Pacific voyages of the explorer James Cook; “A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World” (2008), a revisionist view that plays down the significance of the Pilgrims; and “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War” (2011).

Mr. Horwitz, who had written a book on the explorations of the New World before the Pilgrims arrived, toured the headquarters of the Cuttyhunk Historical Society on Cuttyhunk Island in Massachusetts in 2008.

His latest book, “Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide,” published this month, retraces the antebellum meanderings of Frederick Law Olmsted, whose dispatches for The Times, long before he gained fame for designing Central Park and other urban landscapes, sought to fathom the soul of the slaveholding states and find common ground among Americans of good will."

Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199574680/anthony-lander-horwitz

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Horwitz