Eventually, I turned some of this material into a profile of a one-armed, one-toothed preacher from Its, Mississippi, and submitted it to a now-defunct newspaper in Jackson, which paid me $50 for the piece. As therapy, I started writing every day, just stray observations and impressions, and also interviewed and photographed the characters I met. In my early twenties, I worked as a union organizer in rural Mississippi and found myself in culture shock. That hooked me on travel, and on hitchhiking I later thumbed across Europe and Australia.īy accident. So one summer when I’d saved a few hundred bucks, I quit and hitchhiked to California and back. and day-dreamed about fleeing the humid city for the wide open West. Tony is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, where he is completing a book about early European explorers of America.Īs a teenager, I had wretched summer jobs in Washington D.C. His awards include a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, and an Overseas Press Club award for coverage of the first Gulf War. He has also been a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and a staff writer for the New Yorker. Dutton 1991) and One For the Road: An Outback Adventure (Random House 1988). Tony Horwitz is the author of Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Henry Holt 2002), Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Pantheon 1998), Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia (E.P.
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