Anthony Horowitz
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1955
- Works
- 356
Top works
- Snakehead
- Snakehead
- Eagle Strike (Alex Rider Graphic Novel)
- Kefar ashmadim
- Moonflower Murders
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Film & TV
Writing · Stanmore, Middlesex, England, UK
Anthony Horowitz, OBE is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His work for young adult readers includes The Diamond Brothers series, the Alex Rider series, and The Power of Five series.
Known for
- Victorian Britain on Film — Self2021
- Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple — Self - Screenwriter and Author2020
- Great British Menu — Self - Guest Judge2006
- Question Time — Self - Panellist1979
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- Total plays
- 88,238
Anthony Horowitz's life might have been copied from the pages of Charles Dickens or the Brothers Grimm. Born in 1956 in Stanmore, Middlesex, to a family of wealth and status, Anthony was raised by nannies, surrounded by servants and chauffeurs. His father, a wealthy businessman, was, says Mr. Horowitz, "a fixer for Harold Wilson." What that means exactly is unclear — "My father was a very secretive man," he says— so an aura of suspicion and mystery surrounds both the word and the man. <a href="h
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data
· 2014 · cited 60,113x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,272x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- Structure validation in chemical crystallography
· 2009 · cited 14,073x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 13,695x
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Key facts
- Born
- Anthony John Horowitz , ( 1955-04-05 ) 5 April 1955 (age 71) , Stanmore, Middlesex , England
- Occupation
- Novelist, screenwriter, children's author & adult author
- Alma mater
- Vanbrugh College , York
- Genre
- Adventure, mystery, thriller, horror, fantasy
- Notable works
- Alex Rider The Power of Five The Diamond Brothers Foyle's War The House of Silk Magpie Murders
- Spouse
- Jill Green ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1988 )
- Children
- Nicholas Cassian
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Key dates
- Born
- 5 April 1955
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anthony
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- film producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Official website
- www.anthonyhorowitz.com
- Image
- Anthony Horowitz 20221130.jpg
Article
Anthony John Horowitz CBE (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the Alex Rider series featuring a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, The Power of Five series (known as The Gatekeepers in the US), and The Diamond Brothers series.
Horowitz's works for adults include: the play Mindgame (2001); two Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk (2011) and Moriarty (2014); three novels featuring his own detectives Atticus Pünd and Susan Ryeland, Magpie Murders (2016), Moonflower Murders (2020), and Marble Hall Murders (2025); six novels featuring a fictionalised version of himself as a companion and chronicler to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne: The Word Is Murder (2017), The Sentence Is Death (2018), A Line to Kill (2021), The Twist of a Knife (2022), Close to Death (2024) and A Deadly Episode (2026).
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1955 births20th-century English male writers20th-century English novelists21st-century English male writers21st-century English novelistsAlumni of the University of YorkBritish television show creatorsCommanders of the Order of the British EmpireCozy mystery writersEnglish children's writersEnglish horror writersEnglish male novelists