Anthony Horowitz

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Anthony Horowitz
By Tom
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Before the Books

• Born on April 5, 1956 in Stanmore,Middlesex,
  England
• Admits his father was a very secretive man.
  Became in danger of becoming bankrupt, and after
  removing his wealth from Zürich banks, hid it
  away under a false name. He then died, leaving
  his wife searching for but never finding the
  money

• In 1963, at the age of eight, was sent to Orley
  Farm a boarding school in Harrow, London
• He remembers the headmaster of the school
  flogging the boys until they bled".
• Attended Rugby School followed by the University
  of York.

a beating administered with a whip or rod
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Writing Career
Pentagram The Devil's Door-Bell (1983) The Night
of the Scorpion (1984) The Silver Citadel (1986)
Day of the Dragon (1989)
Alex Rider Stormbreaker (2000) Point Blanc
(2001) Skeleton Key (2002) Eagle Strike (2003)
Scorpia (2004) Ark Angel (2005) Snakehead
(2007) Yassen (forthcoming)
Power of Five (The Gatekeepers) Raven's Gate
(2005) Evil Star (2006) Nightrise (2007)
Necropolis (2008 forthcoming)
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1978-1991

• Horowitz had wanted to be a writer since he was
  eight
• 1978-the publication of his first book, Enter
  Frederick K Bower was released.
• A year later a sequel was followed, The Sinister
  Secret of Frederick K Bower.
• 1981- Third novel, Misha, the Magician and the
  Mysterious Amulet.

• 1983- the first of the Pentagram series, The
  Devil's Door-bell This story was about Martin
  Hopkins battling an ancient evil that threatened
  the whole world.
• Originally, there was supposed to be 5 books in
  the Pentagram series, however only 4 out of the
  five were written, the other three were The Night
  of the Scorpion (1984), The Silver Citadel (1986)
  and Day of the Dragon (1989).

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1994-2000

• Horowitz wrote many stand-alone novels in the
  1990s.
• Granny (1994) was Horowitz's first book in three
  years. The second of the series was The Switch in
  1996. The third and last of the series was The
  Devil and His Boy (1998), which is set in the
  Elizabethan era, and explores the rumor of
  Elizabeth I's secret son.

• Horowitz Horror (1999) and More Horowitz Horror
  (2000) explored a darker side to his writing.
  Each book contains a number of short horror
  stories.

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2000-???

• Horowitz began his most famous and successful
  series, the Alex Rider novels. These books are
  about a 14-year old boy becoming a spy. Right
  now, there are seven Alex Rider books
  Stormbreaker (2000), Point Blanc (2001), Skeleton
  Key (2002), Eagle Strike (2003), Scorpia (2004)
  Ark Angel (2005) and Snakehead (2007)
• All Alex Rider novels were released in April of
  every year expect 2006 when Horowitz started
  another series The Power of Five

• The Power of Five is a rewritten and modern
  version of the Pentagram Series
• 3 books have been released as part of the Power
  of Five series. The first was Ravens Gate
  (2005), Evil Star (2006) and Nightrise (2007)
• Horowitz describes the Power of Five series as
  Alex Rider with witches and monsters

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Television and Film

• Children's anthology series Dramarama
• Wrote for the popular fantasy series Robin of
  Sherwood.
• Often his work has a comic edge, Murder Most
  Horrid (1991) and the comedy-drama The Last
  Englishman (1995), starring Jim Broadbent.
• 1997, wrote the majority of the episodes in the
  early series of Midsomer Murders
• 2001, he created a drama anthology series of his
  own, Murder in Mind
• Also less-favorably known for the creation of two
  short-lived and sometimes derided science-fiction
  shows, Crime Traveller (1997) and The Vanishing
  Man (pilot 1996, series 1998)
• Foyle's War in 2002 had restored his reputation
  as one of Britain's foremost writers of popular
  drama.
• Writer of a feature film screenplay, The
  Gathering, which was released in 2002 and starred
  Christina Ricci.
• He wrote the screenplay for Alex Rider's first
  major motion picture, Stormbreaker and is working
  on the screenplay for the second Point Blanc.

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(Talking about J.K.Rowling) She's a very lovely
lady, absolutely great. But you just can't help
wondering how she carries 2 million quid around
in her pocket.
He is married to television producer Jill Green
Anthony has won the Children's Book of the Yeard
and Red House Children's Book Awards for his Alex
Rider books
I might talk about sex and drugs, but I'm
British, I don't know any better!
Facts and Quotes
Anthony now lives in North London with his wife
Jill Green, whom he married in Hong Kong in 1988.
Owing to their wedding ceremony being carried out
in Chinese he failed to understand any of it
It is said that his name is for the fact he uses
a mixture of horror and wit
My sister and I danced on my grandmother's grave
when she died.
Anthony claims to have bathed with a teacher
You have to be true to the spirit, if not to the
actual letter, of the book.