Confederates in the Attic ─ Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

The questions, discussion topics, and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War . Mingling history, memoir and travelogue, this fresh, provocative, fast-paced adventure will leave many readers itching to travel in Horwitz's tracks.

Tony Horwitz first wrote about the South and the Civil War as a third-grader in
Maryland when he pencilled a book that began: "The War was started when after all
the states had sececed (sic)." He went on to write about war full-time as a
foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, reporting on conflicts in
Bosnia, the Middle East, Africa, and Northern Ireland. After a decade abroad,
Horwitz moved to a crossroads in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where he
now works as a staff writer for The New Yorker.

Confederates in the Attic is Horwitz's third book, following the national
bestseller, Baghdad Without A Map and other Misadventures in Arabia, and One For
The Road: Hitchhiking Through the Australian Outback, to be reissued this year by
Vintage. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1995,
and the Overseas Press Club Award for best foreign news reporting in 1992, for
his coverage of the Gulf War. Before becoming a reporter, Horwitz lived and
worked in rural Kentucky and Mississippi and produced a PBS documentary about
Southern timber workers.

A graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's Graduate School of
Journalism, Horwitz and his wife--Geraldine Brooks, also a journalist and
author--have a young son, Nathaniel. They live in Waterford, Virginia.