Tony Horwitz was an American journalist and author whose articles and books covered American history and society. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. His best-known books include Confederates in the Attic, a work of travel writing on the Civil War, and Midnight Rising, a history of John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. Horwitz also wrote Baghdad Without a Map and Blue Latitudes, and died in 2019.
