Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz

He lives with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their son, Nathaniel, on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. Horwitz has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a visiting scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. His books include 'Midnight Rising', 'A Voyage Long and Strange', 'Blue Latitudes', a national and 'New York Times 'bestseller about the Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook, 'Baghdad Without a Map', a national bestseller about the Middle East, and 'Confederates in the Attic', a national and 'New York Times 'bestseller about the Civil War. After returning to the 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. 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'. Tony Horwitz is a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz