Tony Horwitz

Tony Horwitz died on May 27, 2019. A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and best-selling author, he was known for his hands-on approach to journalism, embedding himself into organizations and lowpaying jobs to report on the quality of living and working conditions. Horwitz wrote for the Wall Street Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize, and for the New Yorker. Several of his works were New York Times best sellers, including Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (1998). His most recent book was Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide (2019).