Confederates In the Attic

Tony Horwitz first wrote about the South and the Civil War as a third-grader inMaryland when he pencilled a book that began: "The War was started when after allthe states had sececed (sic)." He went on to write about war full-time as aforeign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, reporting on conflicts inBosnia, the Middle East, Africa, and Northern Ireland. After a decade abroad,Horwitz moved to a crossroads in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where henow works as a staff writer for The New Yorker.Confederates in the Attic is Horwitz's third book, following the nationalbestseller, Baghdad Without A Map and other Misadventures in Arabia, and One ForThe Road: Hitchhiking Through the Australian Outback, to be reissued this year byVintage. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1995,and the Overseas Press Club Award for best foreign news reporting in 1992, forhis coverage of the Gulf War. Before becoming a reporter, Horwitz lived andworked in rural Kentucky and Mississippi and produced a PBS documentary aboutSouthern timber workers.A graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's Graduate School ofJournalism, Horwitz and his wife--Geraldine Brooks, also a journalist andauthor--have a young son, Nathaniel. They live in Waterford, Virginia.