Anthony Horowitz
Autor/a de Stormbreaker
Sobre l'autor
Author and television scriptwriter Anthony Horowitz was born in Stanmore, England on April 5, 1956. At the age of eight, he was sent to a boarding school in London. He graduated from the University of York and published his first book, Enter Frederick K. Bower (1979), when he was 23. He writes mostra'n més mostly children's books, including the Alex Rider series, The Power of Five series, and the Diamond Brothers series. The Alex Rider series is about a 14-year-old boy becoming a spy and was made into a movie entitled Stormbreaker. He has won numerous awards including the 1989 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award for Groosham Grange and the 2003 Red House Children's Book Award for Skeleton Key. He also writes novels for adults including The Killing Joke and The Magpie Murders. He has created Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders for television as well as written episodes for Poirot and Murder Most Horrid. He made The New York Times Best Seller list with his titles The House of Silk Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin and Moriarity.Most recently he was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write the James Bond novel Trigger Mortis. Anthony was awarded an OBE for his services to literature in January 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Anthony Horowitz
Power of Five Books Collection 5 Books Set by Anthony Horowitz (Raven's Gate, Evil Star, Night Rise, Necropolis,… (2013) 15 exemplars
Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger's Drift [1997 TV Series Episode] (1997) — Screenplay — 14 exemplars
Foyle's War: Sets 1-5 - From Dunkirk to VE-Day — Creator — 11 exemplars
Je sais tout sur le monde et la nature (Les Dicos de dis pourquoi?) (French Edition) (1977) 5 exemplars
Crime Traveller 5 exemplars
Crime Traveller: Complete Series — Creator — 4 exemplars
THE MISSION FILES.[CONFIDENTIAL] 3 exemplars
Foyle's War: Sets 1-2 — Creator — 3 exemplars
The Gatekeepers Set 2 exemplars
Foyle's War: Sets 1-7 — Creator — 2 exemplars
Anthony Horowitz Wickedly Funny 10 Children Books Collection Set (The Switch, Return to Groosham Grange, Granny, The… (2015) 2 exemplars
Foyle's War (Series 3, Episodes 01-02) 2 exemplars
The Switch {video} — Autor — 2 exemplars
The Alex Rider Collection Books 2-7 2 exemplars
Alex Underground 2 exemplars
Foyle's War: Sets 5-6 — Creator — 2 exemplars
Foyle's War: Sets 3-4 — Creator — 2 exemplars
Alex Rider Adventure 9-12 1 exemplars
Two of Diamonds by Anthony Horowitz (2013-02-07) 1 exemplars
Foyle's War: Sets 7-8 1 exemplars
Alex Rider Series Books 2-6, Point Blank, Skeleton Key, Eagle Strike, Scorpia and Ark Angel 1 exemplars
Ffon Yn Marw, Y (Welsh Edition) 1 exemplars
Foyle's War (Series 1, Episodes 01-04 / Series 2, Episodes 01-02) — Creator — 1 exemplars
Foyle's War: Set 3-4 1 exemplars
Foyle's War (Series 4, Episodes 01-02 / Series 5, Episodes 01-02 / Series 6, Episodes 01-02) — Creator — 1 exemplars
Coda (Alex Rider, #7.5) 1 exemplars
Foyle's War: Sets 1-3 - 1939-1941 1 exemplars
The Diamond Brothers Detective Agency Collection Anthony Horowitz 7 Titles in 5 Books Set (2017) 1 exemplars
Essential Alex Rider 1 exemplars
Foyle's War: Set 5-6 1 exemplars
Foyle's War: Set 8, Episode 2: Trespass — Creator — 1 exemplars
Foyle's War: Set 8, Episode 1: High Castle — Creator — 1 exemplars
Poisoned pen 1 exemplars
Gemini-Project 1 exemplars
Foyle's War (Series 2, Episodes 03-04 / Series 3, Episodes 01-04) — Creator — 1 exemplars
Foyle's War (Series 3, Episodes 03-04) 1 exemplars
Foyle's War (Series 4, Episodes 03-04) 1 exemplars
The Adventure Of The Seven Christmas Cards 1 exemplars
O Poder dos Cinco. Limbo - Volume 5 1 exemplars
Oblivion[GATEKEEPERS BK05 OBLIVION][Paperback] 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Válogatott könyvek 2014/2 David Baldacci - Az ártatlan; Dorothy Koomson - Barátnőm kislánya; Anthony Horowitz - A… (2014) — Autor — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1955-04-05
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Stanmore, Middlesex, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- North London, England, UK
Orford, Suffolk, England, UK - Educació
- University of York
Orley Farm, Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK - Professions
- screenwriter
novelist
creator of television series - Premis i honors
- Order of the British Empire (Officer, 2014)
- Agent
- Jonathan Lloyd
- Biografia breu
- 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. As unlikely as it might seem, Anthony's father, threatened with bankruptcy, withdrew all of his money from Swiss bank accounts in Zurich and deposited it in another account under a false name and then promptly died. His mother searched unsuccessfully for years in attempt to find the money, but it was never found. That too shaped Anthony's view of things. Today he says, "I think the only thing to do with money is spend it." His mother, whom he adored, eccentrically gave him a human skull for his 13th birthday. His grandmother, another Dickensian character, was mean-spirited and malevolent, a destructive force in his life. She was, he says, "a truly evil person", his first and worst arch villain. "My sister and I danced on her grave when she died," he now recalls.
A miserably unhappy and overweight child, Anthony had nowhere to turn for solace. "Family meals," he recalls, "had calories running into the thousands&. I was an astoundingly large, round child&." At the age of eight he was sent off to boarding school, a standard practice of the times and class in which he was raised. While being away from home came as an enormous relief, the school itself, Orley Farm, was a grand guignol horror with a headmaster who flogged the boys till they bled. "Once the headmaster told me to stand up in assembly and in front of the whole school said, 'This boy is so stupid he will not be coming to Christmas games tomorrow.' I have never totally recovered." To relieve his misery and that of the other boys, he not unsurprisingly made up tales of astounding revenge and retribution.
Anthony Horowitz is perhaps the busiest writer in England. He has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. He writes in a comfortable shed in his garden for up to ten hours per day. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider books, he has also written episodes of several popular TV crime series, including Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid. He has written a television series Foyle's War, which recently aired in the United States, and he has written the libretto of a Broadway musical adapted from Dr. Seuss's book, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. His film script The Gathering has just finished production. And&oh yes&there are more Alex Rider novels in the works. Anthony has also written the Diamond Brothers series.
Membres
Converses
The House of Silk a Baker Street and Beyond (gener 2012)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Mystery/Thriller (7)
Put a Bird On It (1)
Gateway Horror (1)
Best Spy Fiction (1)
Childhood books (1)
Gimmicks (1)
Which house? (1)
Magic schools (1)
Metafiction (1)
Staff Picks (1)
Indie Next Picks (1)
To Read (1)
New Books (1)
Premis
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 225
- També de
- 15
- Membres
- 66,878
- Popularitat
- #202
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 1,888
- ISBN
- 2,347
- Llengües
- 28
- Preferit
- 72