Tony Horwitz

The 2011 Weddell Trustees Lecturer will be Tony Horwitz. On November 16, 2011, Horwitz will deliver a talk on "Midnight Rising: John Brown, Harpers Ferry, and the Start of the Civil War." This is a MEMBERS ONLY event. For membership information go to: http://events.vahistorical.org/site/P...

Plotted in secret and launched in the dark, John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. Few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched the strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising reveals Brown's uprising that stunned the nation and prompted ... (more)a counterattack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown’s capture, his defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South, which considered him a terrorist. The raid also helped elect Abraham Lincoln, who later began to fulfill Brown's dream with the Emancipation Proclamation, a measure he called "a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale." Tony Horwitz is the bestselling author of A Voyage Long and Strange, Blue Latitudes, and Baghdad Without a Map. He won the Pulitzer Prize-winning for Confederates in the Attic, and has worked for the Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker.

An afternoon with ... Tony Horwitz. $10 per ticket in advance; $12 per ticket at the door. Enjoy hors d'oeuvres and folk music by the Gwinnoters. Doors open at 3:30 pm. Tickets are now on sale at all library branches and through the Library Help Line: 770-978-5154. For more information: events@gwinnettpl.com ... (more)Presented by the Gwinnett County Library and Eagle Eye Book Shop.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Tony Horwitz will read from his latest work, A Voyage Long and Strange, a story of history, myth and misadventure that explores what happened in the century between Columbus's sail in 1492 and Jamestown founding in 16-oh-oh something. ... (more)Embarking on his own epic trek retracing these hidden historic places, Horwitz discovered, as he did in Confederates in the Attic, the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget.

Time to be confirmed) TONY HORWITZ, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic, speaks about his book, A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventures in Early America, about what happened in America between its discovery by Columbus ... (more)in 1492 and the Pilgrims’ arrival in 1620. New in paperback.

THURSDAY, MAY 14
12 p.m.
TONY HORWITZ, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic, speaks about his book, A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventures in Early America, about what happened in America between its discovery ... (more)by Columbus in 1492 and the Pilgrims’ arrival in 1620. New in paperback. Location: University Club, Chicago

The Friends of the Newton Free Library are proud to present Elinor Lipman, author of the soon-to-be-published The Family Man, and Tony Horwitz, author of A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, at the 25th annual Book and Author Luncheon.

We will join Tony Horwitz following the path of Captain Cook in Blue Latitudes. Should be fun!

Bestselling author of Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz, discusses his latest, A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America, an irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure.

The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes ... (more)and Confederates in the Attic, takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America.
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-o-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America.
An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs--these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers.
Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek--from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges--Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.

Bio
Tony Horwitz is a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He worked for many years as a reporter, first in Indiana and then during a decade overseas in Australia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, mostly covering wars and conflicts as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. After returning to the States, he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker before becoming a full-time author.
His books include Baghdad Without a Map, a national bestseller about the Middle East; Confederates in the Attic, a national and New York Times bestseller about the Civil War; and Blue Latitudes, a national and New York Times bestseller about the Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook.
Horwitz has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a visiting scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. He lives with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their son, Nathaniel, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

Best-selling author Tony Horwitz discusses the travel bug and his latest adventures to unearth the neglected history of America's early European settlers, as chronicled in his new book A Voyage Long and Strange, on Wednesday, May 28, at 7 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

Horwitz shares ... (more)tales from pre-colonial America, focusing on the Vikings, conquistadors, castaways, French voyageurs, Moorish slaves, and others who roamed and rampaged across most of the modern United States long before the Mayflower landed. He then retraces their steps – seeking out the grape-rich Vinland, Ponce de León's Fountain of Youth, Coronado's Cities of Gold, Walter Raleigh's Lost Colonists, and other mysteries of early America. Everywhere he goes, Horwitz probes the revealing gap between fact and legend.

Horwitz is also the author of Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes, and Baghdad Without a Map. As a Wall Street Journal reporter in 1995, he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for articles on the working conditions of low-wage Americans.

Copies of A Voyage Long and Strange will be avail­able, and the author will sign copies purchased during the event. The event is co-sponsored by Rainy Day Books.

Admission is free. A 6:30 p.m. reception precedes the event. Complete the form below or call 816.701.3407 to indicate your interest in attending.

Harvard Book Store is excited to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist TONY HORWITZ as he tells of an eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America.

On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus’s sail in 1492 ... (more)to Jamestown’s founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America.

A blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs—these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers.

Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek—from Florida’s Fountain of Youth to Plymouth’s sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges—Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.