Civil-War-Themed Lecture From Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Author Tony Horwitz

A native of Washington, D.C., Tony Horwitz is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He worked for many years as a reporter and spent a decade overseas as a foreign correspondent in Australia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

After returning to the United States, he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker before becoming a full-time author. Four of his books have been national bestsellers.

In Confederates in the Attic (1999), Horwitz embarked on a search through the American South for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance.

His newest work, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War (2011), explores John Brown’s Harpers Ferry uprising and the story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. 

The theme of the 2011-2012 Lowell Lecture series is “Remembering the Civil War.” This is part of the Boston Public Library’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

Event info provided by BPL-Copley.