Andrew W. Marlowe
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Andrew W. Marlowe is an American
United States
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 screenwriter
Screenwriter
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He graduated from Columbia University
Columbia University
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 with a degree in English Literature, and attended the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
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 where he obtained his MFA
Master of Fine Arts
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 in Screenwriting.

He won the Nicholl Fellowship award for screenwriting for his script The Lehigh Pirates. Apogee, a space-based adventure he wrote soon after, sold for $500,000. He would go on to write Air Force One
Air Force One (film)
Air Force One is a 1997 American action-thriller film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close, and also features Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell and Paul Guilfoyle...

, End of Days and Hollow Man
Hollow Man
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He has also written the unproduced scripts
Spec script
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 Hammer Down, Alien Prison and a Western
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 intended for Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford
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 and John Woo
John Woo
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. He is currently executive producer and is writing on the ABC series Castle
Castle (TV series)
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, which he created. He also is working on two film screenplays, Manhunt
Manhunt
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and a film adaptation of the comic book series Nick Fury
Nick Fury
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Marlowe lives in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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 with wife and fellow screenwriter Terri Miller and their two children.

Marlowe has been proposed as the possible ghostwriter (or co-writer) of Heat Wave, a mystery novel published September 28, 2009, and purportedly written by Richard Castle
Richard Castle
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 -- the title character of the TV series and part of the storyline of the show. The acknowledgement of the novel names Terri E. Miller as "my partner in crime". The book debuted at number 26 on The New York Times Best Seller list.

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