Michael D. Horowitz

Michael Horowitz
Born Michael D. Horowitz
(1938-12-11) December 11, 1938
Residence West Vancouver, British Columbia
Occupation author, archivist
Spouse(s) Cynthia Palmer
Children 2, including Winona Ryder

Michael D. Horowitz (born December 11, 1938) is an American author and archivist in West Vancouver, British Columbia.[1][2]

Background

His father, Izzy Horowitz, and paternal grandparents were Russian Jews. Horowitz's American-born mother, Ethel (née Frankel), and his maternal side of the family was Romanian Jewish.[3] The entirety of his family died during the Holocaust. He is the husband of author Cynthia Palmer, and the father of Winona Ryder and Uri Horowitz.[1]

Career

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.

References

  1. 1 2 Goodall, Nigel (1998). Winona Ryder: The Biography. London: Blake Pub. ISBN 1-85782-214-5.
  2. ↑ "Flashback Books". Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Michael Horowitz - Genealogy Family Tree". Geni.com. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
  4. ↑ The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library. San Francisco, Calif. [San Francisco: Michael Ludlow, William Dailey, Michael Horowitz, Curators, 1971]


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