Michael Horowitz (born 11 December 1938 in Brooklyn) is an American author and archivist in San Francisco. His father, Sol Horowitz, and paternal grandparents were Jews from Russia. Horowitz's American-born mother, Ethel (né Frankel), and his maternal side of the family were Romanian Jews.[2] 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. 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.

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