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About the author

Anthony Horowitz is the writer of Raven’s Gate, which is the book that I have read. He is an English author and screenwriter. He writes children’s and young adult novels. And he writes extensively for television.

He is most famous for his books about Alex Rider, who is an orphan that gets recruited by the MI6.

He is born on April 5 1956 in Stanmore, Middlesex, England. His family were Jewish. They lived an upper-class lifestyle. He was as young as 8 years old when he found out that he wanted to be a writer. He went to Rugby school, which is a boarding school in London when he was eight years old. And after that he went to York University. He published his first book, Enter Fredrick K Bower in 1978, twenty-two years old.

He has written the television series Murder in Mind, Foyle’s War, Crime Traveller, Menace and Midsummer Murders. And he has also written episodes for more series. He mainly writes the genres; adventure, mystery, thriller and horror.

Today Horowitz lives in North-London with his wife, Jill Green. They have two sons, Nicolas, born in 1989 and Cassian, born in 1991.

BOOKS HE HAS WRITTEN:

Groosham Grange
 * Groosham Grange (1988)
 * The Unholy Grail republished as Return to Groosham Grange (1999)

Alex Rider
 * Stormbreaker (2000)
 * Point Blanc (2001)
 * Skeleton Key (2002)
 * Eagle Strike (2003)
 * Scorpia (2004)
 * Ark Angel (2005)
 * Snakehead (2007)
 * Crocodile Tears (forthcoming)
 * Yassen (forthcoming)

Diamond Brothers
 * The Falcon's Malteser (1986/96)
 * Public Enemy Number Two (1987/97)
 * South By South East (1991/2001)
 * The Blurred Man (2003)
 * The French Confection (2003)
 * I Know What You Did Last Wednesday (2003)
 * The Greek Who Stole Christmas (2007)
 * The Radius of the Lost Shark (2009)

Pentagram
 * The Devil's Door-bell (1983)
 * The Night of the Scorpion (1983)
 * The Silver Citadel (1986)
 * Day of the Dragon (1989)

Power of Five (Retitled in the United States as The Gatekeepers)
 * Raven's Gate (1 August 2005)
 * Evil Star (2 April 2006)
 * Nightrise (3 April 2007)
 * Necropolis (30 October 2008)

Other novels
 * Enter Frederick K Bower (1978)
 * The Sinister Secret of Frederick K Bower (1979)
 * Misha, the Magician and the Mysterious Amulet (1981)
 * Robin of Sherwood: The Hooded Man (1986) (with Richard Carpenter)
 * Adventurer (1987)
 * New Adventures of William Tell (1987)
 * Starting Out (1990)
 * Granny (1994)
 * The Switch (1996)
 * The Devil And His Boy (1998)

Adult novels
 * William S. (1999)
 * Mindgame (2001) (adapted later as a play)
 * The Killing Joke (2004)
 * The Magpie Murders (2006)

Collections
 * Myths and Legends (1991)
 * Horowitz Horror (1999)
 * More Horowitz Horror (2001)
 * The Kingfisher Book of Myths and Legends (2003)
 * Three of Diamonds (2004)

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