Edit] Background and personal life

Anthony Horowitz

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Tony Horwitz (born June 9, 1958)^[1] is an American journalist and writer. His works include Blue Latitudes or Into the Blue, One for the Road, Confederates In The Attic, Baghdad Without A Map, A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World., and his most recent book: Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, published in October 2011.

Edit] Biography

Horwitz was born Anthony Lander Horwitz in Washington, DC, the son of Norman Harold Horwitz and Elinor Lander Horwitz, a writer of young adult and adult books. Horwitz is an alumnus of Sidwell Friends School, in Washington, DC, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa as a history major from Brown University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and 1994 James Aronson Award, for his stories about working conditions in low-wage America published in The Wall Street Journal, where he also worked as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. He also worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker.

Horwitz married the Australian writer and fellow Pulitzer recipient Geraldine Brooks in France in 1984. After formerly dividing their time between homes in Waterford, Virginia and Sydney, Australia,^[2] they now live with their sons Nathaniel and Bizu in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Edit] Bibliography

• Baghdad Without A Map, Angus & Robertson, 1991, ISBN 978-0-207-17168-0
• Confederates in the Attic, Pantheon Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0-679-43978-3
• One for the Road, Vintage Books, 1999, ISBN 978-0-375-70613-4
• Blue Latitudes, Macmillan, 2002, ISBN 978-0-8050-6541-1
• Into the Blue, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7475-6455-3
• The Devil May Care: 50 Intrepid Americans and Their Quest for the Unknown, Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-516922-5
• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, Henry Holt, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8050-7603-5
• Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, Henry Holt, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8050-9153-3

Anthony Horowitz (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter. He has written many children's novels, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty books. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels for the ITV series. He is the creator and writer of the ITV series Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders and Collision.

edit] Background and personal life

Anthony Horowitz was born in 1955 in Middlesex, into a wealthy Jewish family, and in his early years lived an upper-class lifestyle.^[2][3][4] As an overweight and unhappy child, Horowitz enjoyed reading books from his father's library. At the age of eight, Horowitz was sent to the boarding school Orley Farm in Harrow, Middlesex. There, he entertained his peers by telling them the stories he had read.^[2] Horowitz described his time in the school as "a brutal experience", recalling that he was often beaten by the headmaster.^[4]

Horowitz's father acted as a "fixer" for prime minister Harold Wilson. Facing bankruptcy, he moved his assets into Swiss numbered bank accounts. He died from cancer when his son Anthony was 22, and the family was never able to track down the missing money despite years of trying.^[4] Horowitz adored his mother, who introduced him to Frankenstein and Dracula. She also gave him a human skull for his 13th birthday. Horowitz said in an interview that it reminds him to get to the end of each story since he will soon look like the skull. From the age of eight, Horowitz knew he wanted to be a writer, realising "the only time when I'm totally happy is when I'm writing".^[2] He graduated from the University of York with a BA in English literature in 1977.^[5]

In at least one interview, Horowitz claims to believe that H. P. Lovecraft based his fictional Necronomicon on a real text, and to have read some of that text.^[6]

Horowitz now lives in Central London with his wife Jill Green, whom he married in Hong Kong on 15 April 1988. Green produces Foyle's War, the series Horowitz writes for ITV. They have two sons, Nicholas Mark Horowitz (born 1989) and Cassian James Horowitz (born 1991). He credits his family with much of his success in writing, as he says they help him with ideas and research. Horowitz is a patron of child protection charity Kidscape.^[7]

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