Anthony Horowitz
Autor(a) de Stormbreaker
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Anthony Horowitz
Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger's Drift [1997 TV Series Episode] (1997) — Screenplay — 16 exemplares
Power of Five Books Collection 5 Books Set by Anthony Horowitz (Raven's Gate, Evil Star, Night Rise, Necropolis,… (2013) 15 exemplares
Foyle's War: Sets 1-5 - From Dunkirk to VE-Day — Creator — 11 exemplares
Crime Traveller 5 exemplares
Je sais tout sur le monde et la nature (Les Dicos de dis pourquoi?) (French Edition) (1977) 5 exemplares
Crime Traveller: Complete Series — Creator — 4 exemplares
Foyle's War: Sets 1-2 — Creator — 3 exemplares
THE MISSION FILES.[CONFIDENTIAL] 3 exemplares
The Gatekeepers Set 2 exemplares
Anthony Horowitz Wickedly Funny 10 Children Books Collection Set (The Switch, Return to Groosham Grange, Granny, The… (2015) 2 exemplares
Foyle's War (Series 3, Episodes 01-02) 2 exemplares
Foyle's War: Sets 1-7 — Creator — 2 exemplares
The Alex Rider Collection Books 2-7 2 exemplares
Foyle's War: Sets 5-6 — Creator — 2 exemplares
Alex Underground 2 exemplares
Alex Rider 11: Steel Claw 2 exemplares
Foyle's War: Sets 3-4 — Creator — 2 exemplares
The Switch {video} — Autor — 2 exemplares
Ffon Yn Marw, Y (Welsh Edition) 1 exemplar
VILLA GHIACCIAOSSA 1 exemplar
Foyle's War (Series 1, Episodes 01-04 / Series 2, Episodes 01-02) — Creator — 1 exemplar
Foyle's War (Series 2, Episodes 03-04 / Series 3, Episodes 01-04) — Creator — 1 exemplar
Alex Rider, Band 10: Steel Claw 1 exemplar
Alex Rider, Band 5: Scorpia 1 exemplar
Essential Alex Rider 1 exemplar
Foyle's War: Sets 1-3 - 1939-1941 1 exemplar
Foyle's War: Set 8, Episode 1: High Castle — Creator — 1 exemplar
Foyle's War: Set 8, Episode 2: Trespass — Creator — 1 exemplar
Alex Rider Adventure 9-12 1 exemplar
Alex Rider Series Books 2-6, Point Blank, Skeleton Key, Eagle Strike, Scorpia and Ark Angel 1 exemplar
Coda (Alex Rider, #7.5) 1 exemplar
The Diamond Brothers Detective Agency Collection Anthony Horowitz 7 Titles in 5 Books Set (2017) 1 exemplar
Foyle's War: Sets 7-8 1 exemplar
Poisoned pen 1 exemplar
Gemini-Project 1 exemplar
Foyle's War (Series 3, Episodes 03-04) 1 exemplar
Foyle's War (Series 4, Episodes 03-04) 1 exemplar
The Adventure Of The Seven Christmas Cards 1 exemplar
Foyle's War (Series 4, Episodes 01-02 / Series 5, Episodes 01-02 / Series 6, Episodes 01-02) — Creator — 1 exemplar
O Poder dos Cinco. Limbo - Volume 5 1 exemplar
Foyle's War: Set 5-6 1 exemplar
Foyle's War: Set 3-4 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1955-04-05
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Stanmore, Middlesex, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- North London, England, UK
Orford, Suffolk, England, UK - Educação
- University of York
Orley Farm, Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK - Ocupações
- screenwriter
novelist
creator of television series - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Order of the British Empire (Officer, 2014)
- Agente
- Jonathan Lloyd
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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.
Membros
Discussions
The House of Silk em Baker Street and Beyond (Janeiro 2012)
Críticas
Listas
Which house? (1)
New Books (1)
Mystery/Thriller (7)
Put a Bird On It (1)
Gateway Horror (1)
Best Spy Fiction (1)
Childhood books (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 229
- Also by
- 15
- Membros
- 67,511
- Popularidade
- #198
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 1,897
- ISBN
- 2,347
- Línguas
- 28
- Marcado como favorito
- 72
I can't recommend this series enough. It's clever in so many ways. The protagonist is the enigmatic Hawthorne, let go from the police force and now working as a P.I. Hawthorne is such a great character - a brilliant detective, but somewhat lacking in personal skills. I quite like him. And playing Watson to his Holmes? Anthony Horowitz. Uh huh - Horowitz has written himself in as a character in the series! He plays himself, writing about Hawthorne's cases. The relationship between the two is quite interesting...
In this latest, the publisher is after a new book in a short time. Hawthorne currently has no case on the go. Well, not anything he's going to share with Horowitz. So....a past case is going to be used. But its already been solved, so Horowitz have to use the case notes that Hawthorn provides. But (yes there is another But) - Horowitz can't help himself. He decides to track down and interview anyone that was involved - after Hawthorne warns him not to.
What's so great about this series you ask? An actual author playing a character in his series. I just think what the writing process would entail. The enigmatic Hawthorne. With each entry, we learn more about him. I hope we've not heard the last of this pair. The clues and the case. Horowitz is so very, very clever. As I read, I try to keep a lookout for anomalies, lies, seemingly innocuous comments and actions and more. And I'm quite happy to say that I've not solved one yet! I really appreciate Horowitz's intricate and devious plotting.
I highly recommend this series! Fingers crossed for number six!… (mais)