• For the British poet, see Michael Horovitz
  Michael Horovitz
  Michael Horovitz is an English poet, artist and translator.-Life and career:Michael Horovitz was the youngest of ten children who were brought to England from Nazi Germany by their parents, both of whom were part of a network of European-rabbinical families...
  
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• For the U.S. electrical engineer see Michael J. Horowitz
  Michael J. Horowitz
  Michael J. Horowitz is an American electrical engineer who actively participated in the creation of the H.264/AVC video coding standard...
  
  

Michael Horowitz is an American author

Author

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 and archivist

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 in San Francisco.

Horowitz's parents were Jewish, his father immigrated from the Russia

Russia

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 and his mother was born in the U.S.A., some of his relatives died during the Holocaust. He is the husband of author Cynthia Palmer, and the father of Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder

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 and Uri Horowitz.

A former close associate of Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison...

, he is responsible with his wife for the creation of the world's largest library

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 of drug

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 literature, the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library

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The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library is a library of psychoactive drug-related literature created in 1970 by Michael Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer, William Dailey, and Robert Barker, who merged their private libraries...

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Horowitz and actor Leonardo DiCaprio

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 are planning a biopic about Leary to be written by Craig Lucas

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External links

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