Biography
Horwitz was born Anthony Lander Horwitz in Washington, DC, the son of Norman Harold Horwitz and Elinor Lander Horwitz, a writer of young adult and adult books. Horwitz is an alumnus of Sidwell Friends School, in Washington, DC. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa as a history major from Brown University and got a master's degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and 1994 James Aronson Award, for his stories about working conditions in low-wage America published in The Wall Street Journal. He also worked there as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. He also worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker.
Horwitz married the Australian writer Geraldine Brooks in France in 1984. She has also won the Pulitzer Prize, for her novel, March. After formerly dividing their time between homes in Waterford, Virginia and Sydney, Australia, they live full time with their sons Nathaniel and Bizu in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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