“An Evening with Tony Horwitz”

Pulitzer Prize-winning author/journalist to speak at Hudson Library

Renowned author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz will speak about writing and his books at 7 p.m. on
Monday, April 12, at Hudson Library & Historical Society.

Four of Horwitz’s books have been national bestsellers: A Voyage Long and Strange; Baghdad without a Map;
Blue Latitudes, and Confederates in the Attic. He won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting in 1995 for his work for
The Wall Street Journal.

A graduate of Brown University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the Washington, D.C., native
spent a decade as a foreign correspondent in Australia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He later worked as a staff
writer for The New Yorker before becoming a full-time author.

In Confederates in the Attic, perhaps his best-known book, Horwitz recounts the two years he spent researching the
“unfinished Civil War.” He followed hard-core reenactors and traveled the breadth of the South to discover why the war
continues to fascinate Americans.

USA Today called it a “sparkling book (in which) Horwitz explores some of our culture's myths with the irreverent glee of a
small boy hurling snowballs at a beaver hat. . . . An important contribution to understanding how echoes of the Civil War
have never stopped."

Horwitz’s other work includes “Mississippi Wood,” a PBS documentary about Southern loggers. He also 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 is married to Geraldine Brooks, who won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her 1995 novel, March.

The program is free, but tickets are required. A maximum of four tickets may be picked up at the Reference Desk beginning
Thursday, March 18. No reservations will be taken over the phone. Call the reference desk at 330-653-6658, ext. 1010,
for more information