Anthony Horowitz

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Anthony Horowitz, OBE (born 5 April 1955), is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense.

The Diamond Brothers series, the Alex Rider series, and the Power of Five series are among his young adult readers' favorites. (The Gatekeepers): His adult writing includes Mindgame (2001), two Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk (2011) and Moriarty (2014), and three books based on his own detectives, Magpie Murder (2016), The Sentence Is Murder (2017), and Sentence is Death (2018).

He was also chosen by the Ian Fleming estate to write James Bond books, beginning with Trigger Mortis (2015). He has also written for television, contributing scripts to ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot and Midsomer Murders.

He was the producer and writer of Foyle's War, Collision and Injustice, as well as BBC's New Blood.

Background and personal life

Horowitz was born in Stanmore, Middlesex, into a Jewish family, and he lived a middle-class life in his early years. Horowitz, an overweight and unhappy child, loved reading books from his father's library. Horowitz used to go to Instow, where his nanny took him boating on the River Torridge as a child. Benjamin was also stuffed monkey (which was later eaten by his dog).

Horowitz began writing at the age of 8 or 9, and he "knew" he was going to be a professional writer. He was an underachiever in school and wasn't physically fit, and he discovered his passion in books and telling stories. "I was quite positive, from my earliest memory, that I would be a professional writer and nothing more."

He began at Rugby School, a public school in Rugby, Warwickshire, at the age of 13. Morowitz's mother introduced him to Frankenstein and Dracula. For his 13th birthday, she gave him a human skull. In an interview, Horowitz said that it reminds him to finish each story because he'll soon be like the skull. He graduated from the University of York with a lower second class degree in English literature and art history in 1977, where he was in Vanbrugh College.

Horowitz's father was compared to some of prime minister Harold Wilson's "circle," including Eric Miller. Faced with bankruptcy, he turned his money into Swiss numbered bank accounts. Horowitz died of cancer at the age of 22, and the family was never able to locate the missing money after years of trying.

Horowitz and his wife Jill Green, whom he married in Hong Kong on April 15, 1988, now live in Central London. The war Foyle's War was directed by Green, and Horowitz wrote the series for ITV. They have two sons. As he says they support him with ideas and research, he attributes a lot of his writing success. He is a member of the Suffolk family support charity Home-Start and the child protection charity Kidscape.

He considers himself to be "vaguely conservative" on a political level. Horowitz said ahead of the 2010 United Kingdom general election, he would vote for the Conservative Party in reaction to the governing Labour Party's then policies, but "with little enthusiasm." Horowitz wrote a letter in 2017 urging fellow writer Lionel Shriver's comments on the same subject. "There is a rigidity in the way we've started to think and speak," he said of the phenomenon of cancellation culture and "mobbing" of figures for expressing differing viewpoints. We discover that we are not just disagreeing on certain topics, but that we are wrong about the dangers that pose. People who say something concerning in the media aren't saying it's me, not that I am saying so. Lose your career, according to them. They want you to never have an income again.

In the 2022 New Year Honours, Horowitz was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

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Literary career

The Sinister Secret of Frederick K Bower, Anthony Horowitz's first book, was a comedic adventure for children that was released in 1979 and later reissued as Enter Frederick K Bower in 1985. Misha, the Magician and the Mysterious Amulet, his second book, was released in 1981, and he moved to Paris to write his third book.

The first book in the Pentagram series was published in 1983. The tale, entitled The Devil's Door-Bell, featured thirteen-year-old Martin Hopkins' struggle with a foster mother on a Yorkshire farm, but it quickly became a disaster when he finds himself fighting an ancient enemy that threatens the world. Only three of the four remaining novels in the series were ever published: The Night of the Scorpion (1984), The Silver Citadel (1986), and Day of the Dragon (1986).

Myths and Legends, a collection of retold stories from around the world, was released in 1985.

Groosham Grange was published in 1988. David Eliot, the seventh son of a seventh son, is the central character of the book. This book went on to win the 1989 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award. While there were some similarities between this book and J. K. Rowling's latest Harry Potter book, Horowitz did not take action because of this.

Despite this, Malteser's (1986) was the most significant publication of Horowitz's early career. This book was the first in the Diamond Brothers series to be published in 1987, and in 1991, South East was the first book to be published.

Horowitz wrote several stand-alone books in the 1990s. Horowitz's first book, Granny, a comedy about an abusive grandmother, was his first book in three years, and it was the first of three books for an audience similar to Groosham Grange's. The Switch, a body swap story, was the second of these stories, first published in 1996. The third instalment of Elizabeth I's unveiled son, The Devil and His Boy, was published in 1997 and explores the mystery of Elizabeth I's unconcerned son.

The Unholy Grail was published in 1999 as a follow-up to Groosham Grange. It was later renamed Return to Groosham Grange in 2003, presumably to help young readers understand the connection between the two books. Horowitz confessed to a fan on Twitter that he had intended to write a third book but was dissuaded after the success of the Harry Potter series. Horowitz Horror (1999) was published in the same year as a collection of several short horror stories aimed at children and young adults. Horowitz had the opportunity to explore a darker side of his writing.

Horowitz tried to reach an adult audience with a book named Poisoned Pen some time before the new millennium. Martin Holland, who is a childhood friend of a 21st-century William Shakespeare incarnation, is the subject of the book. William Shakespeare is reimagined as a Hollywood screenwriter whose suicide in a series of events that Martin Holland finds somewhat bizarre, despite attempts by a Los Angeles detective to sue him. Martin's quest to solve the ever-growing mystery by a string of very unusual events and a few people who are genuinely grateful that Shakespeare was murdered. The book has never been published in the United Kingdom or even in English, but Spanish and Dutch copies have been published (renamed El asesinato de Shakespeare and William S. respectively). Despite Horowitz' latest successes in adult literature, there are no plans to get the book republished as of June 2021.

Horowitz began his most popular and lucrative series in the new millennium with the Alex Rider books. These books are about a 14-year-old boy who becomes a spy for the British Secret Service branch MI6. There are eleven books in which Alex Rider is the protagonist, as well as another related to the Alex Rider series: Stormbreaker (2004), Point Blanc (2002), Scorpia (2004), Scorpia Rising (2011), plus Russian Roulette (2013). Before writing Russian Roulette about Yassen Gregorovich's life, Horowitz said that Scorpia Rising was to be the last book in the Alex Rider series, but he has revisited the series with Never Say Die (2017) and Nightshade (2020). In January 2022, he revealed that he would begin writing a new Alex Rider book, which is set to be published sometime in 2023.

Horowitz wrote three novellas about the Diamond Brothers: The Blurred Man, The French Confection, and I Know What You Did Last Wednesday, which were all republished as Three of Diamonds in 2004. Horowitz travelled to Australia to study Radius of the Lost Shark, according to the author's website in early editions of Scorpia and the introduction to Three of Diamonds. This assertion was even stronger backed up when Diamond Brothers' latest bookla The Greek who Stole Christmas appeared. It was announced in 2007 that Radius of the Lost Shark would be the eighth entry in the series, although it was speculated at at the time. However, the next book in the series, Where Seagulls Dare, is actually named, and it is unrelated to the Australian-based adventure that was previously revealed. Horowitz's first six chapters were unedited on his website through 2020, and he expects for the full edited book to be released in 2022, with all proceeds going to benefit the NHS.

Horowitz also published two sequels to his short horror story collection; More Horowitz Horror (2000) and More Bloody Horowitz (2009). Many of the stories in Horowitz Horror and More Horowitz Horror were later repackaged in two or three books as the Pocket Horowitz series, while More Bloody Horowitz was later reissued as Scared to Death. Darren O'Shaughnessy, a writer who is more popularly known as Darren Shan, is one of More Bloody Horowitz's most popular authors. In 2008, the pair became embroiled in a joking contest over O'Shaughnessy's use of Horowitz's name for an offensive character (Antoine Horwitzer) on Wolf Island. In the short story In revenge, Horowitz plotted a horrific literary revenge.

With The Killing Joke, a comedy about a man who tries to track down a joke with fatal consequences, Horowitz attempted to reach an adult audience in 2004. The book was not well-received, and Horowitz, a young adult fiction author, brought a young adult story called Raven's Gate, which began a second popular series entitled The Gatekeepers in the United States, in August 2005. Each of the first four entries of The Power of Five became a rewritten and expanded version of their respective counterpart from the Pentagram series, based heavily on one of his earlier books, The Devil's Door-Bell. In April 2006, Evil Star, the second book in the series, was published. Nightrise is the third in the series, and it was announced on April 2nd, 2007. In October 2008, Necropolis, based on Day of the Dragon), was published. Oblivion, the fifth and final book that was not based on a previous Pentagram book, was published in October 2012 and is the first one not based on a Pentagram book. This film, according to Horowitz, is named "Alex Rider with devils and witches."

Anthony Horowitz's Mindgame performed at the SoHo Playhouse in New York City in October 2008. Keith Carradine, Lee Godart, and Kathleen McNenny were among Mindgame's starring. Ken Russell's first performance on the New York stage was a success.

In March 2009, he appeared on Private Passions, the BBC Radio 3's biographical music discussion show.

Arthur Conan Doyle's estate declared that Horowitz would be the author of a new Sherlock Holmes book, the first such attempt to get a formal acknowledgement from them and the first such attempt to be dubbed The House of Silk. Both were published in November 2011 and were broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Moriarty, a follow-up book, was released in 2014.

The Ian Fleming estate hired Horowitz to write Trigger Mortis, a James Bond book that was first published in 2015. Forever and A Day, a sequel, was published on May 31, 2018. In May 2021, a new book titled With a Mind to Kill was announced, and it will be published in May 2022. Horowitz is the only author in recent years to have been invited by Ian Fleming Publications to write new, official James Bond books.

Magpie Murders, Horowitz's adult novel, was released in 2016. Having previously mentioned the book in 2005, it was first described as being about "a whodunit writer who is dead while writing his new whodunit." Horowitz was supposed to finish it in late 2015, but it was finally published in October 2016. In 2020, Moonflower Murders, a sequel to the Moonflower Murders, was published. Horowitz has said that a third and final book in the series is likely to be published sometime in 2023, with Horowitz expressing doubt that it will be published sometime in 2023.

Horowitz claimed in 2011 that he had intended to write a new trilogy for the same audience as his Alex Rider and Power of Five books, but that it was still "a mystery." Horowitz revealed more details about the film during 2012 and 2013, where he said that it would be "completely different genre" from everything else, and that it would have a modern-day London with a 15-year-old protagonist. The Machine is also known as it's tentatively named The Machine. Horowitz, on the other hand, revealed in 2021 that he still hasn't started writing this story and that he has no imminent plans to do so.

Film and television career

Horowitz drafted the screenplay for Just Ask for Diamond, a 1989 film version of his Diamond Brothers book The Falcon's Malteser starring Bill Paterson, Jimmy Nail, Roy Kinnear, Susannah York, Michael Robbins, and Patricia Hodge, as Nick and Tim Diamond respectively, as Nick and Tim Diamond.

Horowitz is the author of The Gathering, a family film screenplay that was released in 2003 and starred Christina Ricci.

Stormbreaker, Alex Rider's first major motion picture, was written by him.

Horowitz began writing for television in the 1980s, contributing to the children's anthology series Dramarama, as well as five episodes of the popular fantasy series Robin of Sherwood. Under the name Robin of Sherwood: The Hooded Man (1986), he also reimagined three of Carpenter's stories as a children's book.

In addition,, he created Crossbow (1987), a half-hour action adventure series loosely based on William Tell. Starting Out (1990), a collection of screenplays by the author himself, was also released in this period in Horowitz's career (1987), a thriller about a criminal stuck on a prisoner ship with his sworn enemy based on the Richard Carpenter series.

With the adaptation of several Hercule Poirot tales for ITV's popular Agatha Christie's Poirot series in the 1990s, his fascination with murder mysteries began. His writing has a comedic edge, as shown by Murder Most Horrid (BBC Two, 1991) and The Last Englishman (1995), starring Jim Broadbent.

The Diamond Brothers, a six-part television series created and directed by Horowitz himself, was broadcast on ITV in 1991. The series is based on the book South by South East's, which Horowitz said after writing the script, essentially making South by South East a novelization of the television series rather than the novel being the main source of inspiration. Both McLinden and Dale reprised their respective film roles, putting the television series as a sequel to Just Ask for Diamond.

He wrote the majority of the episodes in Midsomer Murders' early series from 1997 to 2012. Murder in Mind, an occasional series that features a different group of characters and a different murder every one-hour episode, began in 2001.

He is also known for the development of two short-lived and often mocked science fiction shows, Crime Traveller (1997) for BBC One and The Vanishing Man (1997), series 1998) for ITV. Although Crime Traveller received rave reviews, it was not renewed for a second season, which Horowitz explains to BBC staff who were relocated.

Foyle's War, a detective drama set during the Second World War, was released in 2002.

He conceived the 2009 ITV crime drama Collision and co-wrote the screenplay with Michael A. Walker.

In the United Kingdom and on the PBS series Masterpiece Mystery, Horowitz converted his novel Magpie Murders into a television miniseries. In the United States, the CIA has shown its presence.

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