"Anthony Horowitz was born in North London in 1955. He was sent to boarding school in Harrow and went on to university in York. He decided he wanted to be a writer at the age of eight and had his first book, Enter Frederick K Bower, when he was 23. He has written lots and lots of television programmes, mostly about murder! He created the detective dramas Midsomer Murders and Murder in Mind, and he's also written episodes for Poirot and Murder Most Horrid. "

Anthony Horowitz (born 5 April 1955), is an English author 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 ITV series. He is the creator and writer of the ITV series Foyle's War and the series Midsomer Murders.