Andrew W. Marlowe

December 23, 1966

Andrew W. Marlowe (sometimes Andrew Marlowe) is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for being the creator, executive producer, and writer of  CBS' The Equalizer (2021-), the CBS show Take Two (2018), and the ABC show Castle (2009-2016). He also wrote the screenplays for Air Force One, End of Days, and Hollow Man. 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 is purportedly the ghostwriter (or co-writer) of Heat Wave, a mystery novel published September 28, 2009, attributed to the fictional Richard Castle—the title character of the Castle TV series; the novel itself is a plot element in the show.