Writer Tony Horwitz won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his reporting on the fast-growing, dangerous and low-wage poultry industry. “While every town and village Cook had passed through wanted to claim him as a native son, Cook didn’t truly belong to any of them,” Mr. Horwitz wrote. (Randi Baird)Something similar could be said of Mr. Horwitz, writer Michael Lewis, a longtime friend, said Tuesday in an interview. In the middle of a demonstration in Tehran, Mr. Horwitz found himself in a crowd chanting “Death to America.”He met an English-speaking demonstrator who unexpectedly asked Mr. Horwitz about Disneyland. “We are each other’s first and last editors,” Mr. Horwitz told the Birmingham News in 2008.

Source: Washington Post May 28, 2019 17:06 UTC