Horwitz and fellow
Post colleague
Scott Higham shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for their examination of the deaths of children in the D.C. foster care system. Horwitz also co-wrote an investigation of D.C. police shootings that won the 1999 Pulitzer for public service and the 1999
Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. She was a member of the team of reporters who won the 2008
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for the shooting rampage at
Virginia Tech. Horwitz co-authored the 2003 book,
Sniper: Inside the Hunt for the Killers Who Terrorized the Nation. Among her other awards are the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for reporting on the disadvantaged and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal. Horwitz and Higham are co-authors of
Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery'. The non-fiction book, released in May 2010, chronicles the 2001 disappearance of Washington, DC intern
Chandra Levy, whose remains were found one year later in an isolated area of the city's
Rock Creek Park. In 2011, Horwitz was temporarily suspended by
The Washington Post for
plagiarism after she copied parts of an article about Jared Loughner. The article was first published on March 4, 2011, in
The Arizona Republic. ==Personal life==