Horowitz Horror: The Phone Goes Dead Award-winning author by Anthony Horowitz (author)

Author/Illustrator

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz started writing because he wanted to be like Tintin. He has now travelled to all the places that Tintin has been – apart from the moon!

His Alex Rider series is one of the most popular children’s book series ever, and the first Alex Rider book, Stormbreaker, became a major Hollywood film. In 2003, Anthony won the Red House Children’s Book Award (voted for by children) for Skeleton Key.

He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Diamond Brothers detective stories, as well as the bestselling The Power of Five books, which were inspired by a simple thought. “Isn’t it more exciting to imagine these great battles with all their magic and mystery happening in the very high street where you live, just out of the corner of your eye?”

Anthony lives in central London with his wife Jill Green, a TV producer, and their sons Nicholas and Cassian. His whole family gets involved in his writing. Jill has produced several of Anthony’s scripts, including the drama serial Foyle’s War, which won the Lew Grade Audience Award in 2003. His son Cassian is already a seasoned actor, having appeared in three of his shows, and Nicholas, his oldest son, has helped Anthony to research the Alex Rider books by trying his hand at everything from scuba-diving to snowboarding and surfing!

In 2013, Anthony was awarded an OBE for services to literature..

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1. bookaholic202
   on 9 March 2014

   I never thought baths or phones could be scary but this proved me wrong

2. AngelofDeath
   on 8 March 2014

   Horwitz writes books scarier than Rl .Stine

3. me12344
   on 16 June 2013

   how do you read this book online

   5 out of 5

4. Nashdasher
   on 7 March 2013

   This book is really terrifying but a good read just don’t read after dark

5. staceline45
   on 6 October 2012

   I love this book and i even have it in my school book corner thats how good it is and the people who havent read it yet please read it and you will find it fantastic

   4 out of 5