WASHINGTON, May 29 — Tony Horwitz, author of the book Confederates in the Attic about US Civil War reenactors and other bestsellers, has died at the age of 60.
Horwitz, who won a Pulitzer Prize with The Wall Street Journal before becoming an author of historical non-fiction, died suddenly in Washington while touring for his latest book.
His publisher, Penguin Press, said Horwitz had died on Monday of an apparent heart attack.
As a Wall Street Journal reporter, Horwitz won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for stories he wrote about income inequality and working conditions in low-wage America.
His national bestseller Confederates in the Attic about the men and women who re-enact battles from the 1861-65 Civil War was published in 1998.
Horwitz’ latest book, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, about the 1850s travels of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted — designer of New York’s Central Park — was published this month.
Among his other works were Midnight Rising about the pre-Civil War abolitionist John Brown and Blue Latitudes about Captain James Cook.
A native of Washington, Horwitz, who was married to Geraldine Brooks, also a successful novelist, lived in Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. — AFP
