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Pulitzer prize-winning writer Tony Horwitz dies at 60

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Published: 31 May 2019

Last updated: 5 March 2024

In one of his most popular works, Confederates in The Attic, Horwitz travels across different U.S. states to chronicle the lives of Civil War re-enactors. He is survived by his wife, the Australian Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks

Pulitzer-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz dies at 60(SMH)

Remembering Tony Horwitz, a historian who reckoned fearlessly with the legacy of the Civil War (The New Yorker)

Photo: Tony Horwitz in 1998. Credit: AP/Susan Sterne
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