Horwitz undertook adventure, reported on strikes, covered the war in Iraq. But, most lastingly, he wrote about the Civil War and its tortured legacy of hatred and division, battles that never ended.

Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author known for embedding himself in the worlds he wrote about, whether joining a slaughterhouse assembly line or an army of ...

Horwitz, who died Monday, spoke to Fresh Air in '98 about Confederates in the Attic, his book about the legacy of the Civil War. Plus, Maureen Corrigan reviews his latest book, Spying on the South.

Tony Horwitz's widow Geraldine Brooks reflects on grief in 'Memorial Days' Horwitz died suddenly in 2019 while on a book tour. In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks grieves her husband — and also ...

I've been waiting for Tony Horwitz to write another big on-the-road book that crisscrosses the American cultural divide ever since his bestseller, Confederates in the Attic, came out in 1998.

In all of his books, Horwitz practiced participant journalism as a traveling reporter, as well as doing deep archival research. While he was working on “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid ...

Tony Horwitz has done it again. In his earlier, riveting book, "Confederates in the Attic," he journeyed through the South to explore the rich and thorny legacy of the Civil War. With the same ...

Geraldine Brooks' 'Memorial Days: A Memoir,' about the sudden, unexpected death of her husband, is as singular as the loss itself.

By Tony Horwitz 476 pp. Penguin Press. $30. A version of this article appears in print on , Page 10 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: The Soul of the South .

Forget the Pilgrims. America's roots are older and more twisted, what Tony Horwitz calls a "primordial slime of false starts and mutations." ...

Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote acclaimed nonfiction books that explored the Confederate cultural legacy in the South, the voyages of Capt. James Cook, ...

Horwitz died suddenly in 2019 while on a book tour. In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks grieves her husband — and also reflects on the life she might have lived had they not met.