Education
Marlowe graduated from Columbia University with a degree in English Literature, and attended the University of Southern California where he obtained his Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting.
Marlowe graduated from Columbia University with a degree in English Literature, and attended the University of Southern California where he obtained his Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting.
Apogee, a space-based adventure he wrote soon after, sold for $500,000. He went on to write Air Force One, End of Days and Hollow Manitoba He wrote the unproduced scripts Hammer Down, Alien Prison and a Western intended for Harrison Ford and John Woo.
He is the creator and executive producer of the American Broadcasting Company television series Castle, which he also frequently writes.
He is working on two film screenplays, Manhunt and a film adaptation of the comic book character Nick Fury. Marlowe 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 television series.
The novel itself is a plot element in the show. The book debuted at number 26 on The New York Times Best Seller list.