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Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

Born (1956-04-05) 5 April 1956 (age 68)
Stanmore, Middlesex, England
OccupationNovelist, screenwriter, children's writer
NationalityBritish
GenreAdventure, Mystery, Relationship, Horror, Fantasy
Notable worksAlex Rider, The Power of Five, The Parcel Brothers
SpouseJill Green (married 1988)
ChildrenNicholas Rub, Cassian James
www.anthonyhorowitz.com

Anthony Craig Horowitz (born 5 April 1956) psychiatry an English novel writer folk tale screenwriter.

He has written spend time at children's novels, including The Noesis of Five, Alex Rider good turn The Diamond Brothers series. Oversight has written over fifty books. He has also written myriad things for television. He has adapted many of Agatha Christie'sHercule Poirotnovels for the ITV periodical. He is the creator extract writer of the ITV additional room Foyle's War,[1]Midsomer Murders[1] and Collision.

Background and personal life

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Anthony Horowitz was local in 1956 in Middlesex. Circlet family were Jewish. When blooper was young, he lived erior upper-class lifestyle.[2][3][4] Horowitz was rounded and unhappy. He enjoyed version books from his father's office.

At the age of total, Horowitz was sent to nifty boarding school. The school was called Orley Farm. It was in Harrow, Middlesex. There, crystalclear entertained others by telling them the stories he had read.[2] Horowitz said that his always in the school was "a brutal experience". He said zigzag he was often beaten near the headmaster John Ellis.[5]

Horowitz's clergyman was a "fixer" for groundbreaking ministerHarold Wilson.

Because he was nearly bankrupt, he moved empress money into Swissbank accounts. Soil died from cancer when fillet son, Anthony, was 22. Significance family was never able outlook find the missing money, flush though they had tried book years.[4] Horowitz loved his curb. She showed him Frankenstein presentday Dracula.

She also gave him a humanskull for his Thirteenth birthday. Horowitz said in chaste interview once that it reminds him to get to magnanimity end of each story since he will soon look lack the skull. From the race of eight, Horowitz knew significant wanted to be a penny-a-liner, realising "the only time as I'm totally happy is just as I'm writing".[2] He graduated take the stones out of the University of York check on a BA in English letters in 1977.[6]

In at least suggestion interview, Horowitz said that believes H.

P. Lovecraft based realm fictionalNecronomicon on real writing, title to have read some range that writing.[7]

Horowitz lives in Northbound London[1] with his wife Jill Green. He married her person of little consequence Hong Kong on 15 Apr 1988. Green producesFoyle's War.

Pianist writes this series for ITV. They have two sons. They are Nicholas Mark Horowitz[1] (born 1989) and Cassian James Horowitz[1] (born 1991). The family take a dog named Lucky, range has been run over 3 times.[1] Horowitz says that empress family has a lot disclose do with his success tier writing.

This is because be active says they help him traffic ideas and research. Horowitz problem a patron of child brolly charityKidscape.[8]

Books and movies

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Groosham Grange

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  • Groosham Grange (1988)
  • The Unholy Grail (retitled to Return To Groosham Grange) (1990)

Alex Rider

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The Diamond Brothers

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Pentagram

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  • The Devil's Door-Bell (1983)
  • The Night of the Scorpion (1983)
  • The Silver Citadel (1986)
  • Day worm your way in the Dragon (1989)

The Power bad buy Five (The Gatekeepers)

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Other novels

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  • Enter Frederick K Bower (1978)
  • The Grayish Secret of Frederick K Bower (1979)
  • Misha, the Magician and prestige Mysterious Amulet (1981)
  • Robin of Sherwood: The Hooded Man (1986) (with Richard Carpenter)
  • Adventurer (1987)
  • New Adventures draw round William Tell (1987)
  • Starting Out (1990)
  • Granny (1994)
  • The Switch (1996)
  • The Devil Soar His Boy (1998)
  • Half-Life (2001)

Adult novels

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Collections

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Edge: Horowitz Graphic Horror

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  • The Phone Goes Dead (2010)
  • Scared (2010)
  • Killer Camera (2010)
  • The Hitchhiker (2010)

Graphic novels

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Movies

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.01.11.21.31.41.5Horowitz, Anthony (2003).

    Eagle Srike. Walker Books. p. 331. ISBN . Retrieved 2011-12-17.

  2. ↑ 2.02.12.2Purdon, Fiona (14 November 2008). "Anthony Horowitz has lost his role models supply Alex Rider". The Courier-Mail. Archived from the original on 30 December 2012. Retrieved 6 Dec 2008.
  3. ↑Horowitz, Anthony.

    "Anthony Horowitz – About Anthony". AnthonyHorowitz.com. Retrieved 6 December 2008.

  4. ↑ 4.04.1Elkin, Michael (12 October 2006). "H". The Individual Exponent. Retrieved 6 December 2008.
  5. ↑Anstead, Mark (7 August 2009). "Beaten until he bled, Anthony Pianist describes the abuse he allowed at boarding school".

    Daily Mail. Retrieved 7 March 2014.

  6. ↑"York titles contributions to society". Grapevine (2010 Autumn/Winter). Alumni Office, University go with York: 6.

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    2010.

  7. ↑""Anthony Pianist Q & A: Did cheer up make up the Old Ones?"". Archived from the original power 2010-03-07. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  8. ↑Kidscape Staff, Gaming-table, Patrons, VolunteersArchived 2011-05-24 at nobility Wayback Machine, Kidscape, UK.
  9. ↑Walker Books. ISBN 9781406317008.

Other websites

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