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Also known as Anthony John Horowitz

English novelist and screenwriter (born 1955)

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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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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1955
audiobookhas german audiobooks

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1,193
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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

    · 2014 · cited 60,457x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 34,730x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,410x

  4. Structure validation in chemical crystallography

    · 2009 · cited 14,098x

  5. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

    · 2016 · cited 13,875x

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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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Official website
www.anthonyhorowitz.com
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date of birth
1955-04-05
start of work period
1978-00-00
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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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