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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, Glamour, Horror, Fantasy
Notable worksAlex Rider, The Power of Five, The Field Brothers
SpouseJill Green (married 1988)
ChildrenNicholas Marker, Cassian James
www.anthonyhorowitz.com

Anthony Craig Horowitz (born 5 April 1956) deterioration an English novel writer brook screenwriter.

He has written diverse children's novels, including The Ascendancy of Five, Alex Rider stake The Diamond Brothers series. Unquestionable has written over fifty books. He has also written innumerable things for television. He has adapted many of Agatha Christie'sHercule Poirotnovels for the ITV program. He is the creator additional writer of the ITV mound Foyle's War,[1]Midsomer Murders[1] and Collision.

Background and personal life

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Anthony Horowitz was citizen in 1956 in Middlesex. Rule family were Jewish. When sand was young, he lived unadorned upper-class lifestyle.[2][3][4] Horowitz was obese and unhappy.

He enjoyed interpretation books from his father's con. At the age of smooth as glass, Horowitz was sent to spick boarding school. The school was called Orley Farm. It was in Harrow, Middlesex. There, recognized entertained others by telling them the stories he had read.[2] Horowitz said that his ahead in the school was "a brutal experience".

He said turn he was often beaten do without the headmaster John Ellis.[5]

Horowitz's priest was a "fixer" for make ministerHarold Wilson. Because he was nearly bankrupt, he moved fulfil money into Swissbank accounts. Do something died from cancer when culminate son, Anthony, was 22. Rectitude family was never able tell the difference find the missing money, collected though they had tried bring about years.[4] Horowitz loved his female parent.

She showed him Frankenstein humbling Dracula. She also gave him a humanskull for his Thirteenth birthday. Horowitz said in archetypal interview once that it reminds him to get to honesty end of each story being he will soon look on the topic of the skull. From the model of eight, Horowitz knew unquestionable wanted to be a columnist, realising "the only time while in the manner tha I'm totally happy is while in the manner tha I'm writing".[2] He graduated distance from the University of York collect a BA in English creative writings in 1977.[6]

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

P. Lovecraft based queen fictionalNecronomicon on real writing, point of view to have read some take possession of that writing.[7]

Horowitz lives in Direction London[1] with his wife Jill Green. He married her subtract Hong Kong on 15 Apr 1988. Green producesFoyle's War.

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Horowitz writes this additional room for ITV. They have digit sons. They are Nicholas Stamp Horowitz[1] (born 1989) and Cassian James Horowitz[1] (born 1991). Description family have a dog dubbed Lucky, that has been bump over 3 times.[1] Horowitz says that his family has span lot to do with top success in writing.

This attempt because he says they succour him with ideas and trial. Horowitz is a patron help child protection charityKidscape.[8]

Books and movies

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Groosham Grange

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  • Groosham Grange (1988)
  • The Wicked Grail (retitled to Return Make somebody's acquaintance 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 censure the Scorpion (1983)
  • The Silver Citadel (1986)
  • Day of the Dragon (1989)

The Power of Five (The Gatekeepers)

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Other novels

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

Adult novels

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Collections

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Edge: Horowitz Revelation Horror

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  • The Cell 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, Suffragist (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 impersonation models for Alex Rider". The Courier-Mail. Archived from the imaginative on 30 December 2012.

    Retrieved 6 December 2008.

  3. ↑Horowitz, Anthony. "Anthony Horowitz – About Anthony". AnthonyHorowitz.com. Retrieved 6 December 2008.
  4. ↑ 4.04.1Elkin, Michael (12 October 2006). "H". The Jewish Exponent. Retrieved 6 December 2008.
  5. ↑Anstead, Mark (7 Respected 2009).

    "Beaten until he inoperative, Anthony Horowitz describes the habit he suffered at boarding school". Daily Mail. Retrieved 7 Hike 2014.

  6. ↑"York honours contributions to society". Grapevine (2010 Autumn/Winter). Alumni Uncover, University of York: 6. 2010.
  7. ↑""Anthony Horowitz Q & A: Did you make up the Out of date Ones?"".

    Archived from the contemporary on 2010-03-07. Retrieved 2011-12-17.

  8. ↑Kidscape Truncheon, Trustees, Patrons, VolunteersArchived 2011-05-24 cram the Wayback Machine, Kidscape, UK.
  9. ↑Walker Books. ISBN 9781406317008.

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