On May 27 2019, acclaimed Australian writer Geraldine Brooks received a call from the emergency department of a hospital in Washington DC. Her American husband of 35 years, Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, had collapsed while in DC promoting his latest book. He was pronounced dead soon after arriving at the hospital.
Brooks recounts her total disbelief:
Not Tony. Not him […] The sixty-year-old who still wears clothes the same size as the day I met him in his twenties. My husband – younger than I am, bursting with vitality. He’s way too busy living. He can’t possibly be dead.
