Anthony horowitz biography ks2

Here are ten facts about Anthony Horowitz, the English children’s novelist and screenwriter.

• Anthony Horowitz was born on 5th April in Middlesex, England.
• As a child he used to tell stories to his friends at boarding school. He loved Dracula by Bram Stoker and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley , and he knew he wanted to be a writer from the age of 8.

• He has two sons, Nicholas and Cassian.
• His first book was published in It was called The Sinister Secret of Frederick K Bower.
• In the first of Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider books was published. This was called Stormbreaker. There are nine Alex Rider books in total and Stormbreaker has been made into film.
• Horowitz has written many scripts for television. In the s, he wrote for the Robin of Sherwood series. In the s he adapted several of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot stories. He also wrote the World War 2 TV drama, Foyle’s War.
• His novel for adults, Mindgame, was released in and was adpted f
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Anthony Horowitz

English novelist and screenwriter (born )

Anthony John HorowitzCBE (born 5 April ) 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 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 (); two Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk () and Moriarty (); two novels featuring his own detective Susan Ryeland, Magpie Murders () and Moonflower Murders (); five novels featuring a fictionalised version of himself as a companion and chronicler to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne: The Word Is Murder (), The Sentence Is Death (), A Line to Kill (), The Twist of a Knife (), and Close to Death ().

The estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming chose Horowitz to write Bond novels utilis