Michael D. Horowitz
Michael D. Horowitz (born December 11, 1938) is an American author and archivist in West Vancouver, British Columbia.[1][2]
His father, Sol Horowitz, and paternal grandparents were Russian Jews. Horowitz's American-born mother, Ethel (née Frankel), and his maternal side of the family were Romanian Jews.[3] Some of his relatives died during the Holocaust. He is the husband of author Cynthia Palmer, and the father of Winona Ryder and Uri Horowitz.[1]
A former close associate of Timothy Leary, he is responsible with his wife for the creation of the world's largest library of drug literature, the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library.[4] He currently is the owner of Flashback Books, a mail-order bookselling operation, specializing in rare, scarce and out-of-print books, periodicals and related printed materials on the history, literature and science of psychoactive drugs.
Horowitz and actor Leonardo DiCaprio are planning a biopic about Leary to be written by Craig Lucas.[5]
References
- ^ a b Goodall, Nigel (1998). Winona Ryder: The Biography. London: Blake Pub. ISBN 1-85782-214-5.
- ^ "Flashback Books". Retrieved November 11, 2014.
- ^ "Michael Horowitz - Genealogy Family Tree". Geni.com. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library. San Francisco, Calif. [San Francisco: Michael Ludlow, William Dailey, Michael Horowitz, Curators, 1971]
- ^ "Entertainment: DiCaprio moves ahead with Leary biopic". RTE.ie. June 30, 2006.
External links
- Avatar: Notes from A Sober Underground, by Michael Horowitz. The Village Voice, October 5, 1967, p. 18
- Flashback Books, Horowitz's bookstore
- Erowid's Michael Horowitz Character Vault
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