Tony Horwitz, one of the nation’s leading non-fiction writers will appear at UNCG on Friday, September 7 at the invitation of the University Libraries. He will address a campus audience and Friends of the UNCG Libraries and sign copies of his books at 4 p.m. in the Jackson Library Reading Room on the UNCG campus. Tony will also appear Saturday, September 8 at the BOOKMARKS Festival in Winston-Salem’s downtown Arts District. It is through the courtesy of BOOKMARKS that he appears at UNCG for this event. Horwitz is a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He worked for many years as a reporter, first in Indiana and then during a decade overseas in Australia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, mostly covering wars and conflicts as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal . After returning to the U.S., he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and worked as a staff wr...
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