Frederic Michael Raphael (born 1931 in Chicago) is an American-born, British-educated screenwriter, and also a prolific novelist and journalist.
He is the son of Cedric Michael Raphael, an employee of the Shell Oil Co., and Irene Rose Mauser. With his parents, he emigrated to Putney, England in 1938. He was educated at Copthorne Preparatory School, Charterhouse School (Lockites), and St John's College, Cambridge, he won an Oscar for the screenpla...
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Frederic Michael Raphael (born 1931 in Chicago) is an American-born, British-educated screenwriter, and also a prolific novelist and journalist.
He is the son of Cedric Michael Raphael, an employee of the Shell Oil Co., and Irene Rose Mauser. With his parents, he emigrated to Putney, England in 1938. He was educated at Copthorne Preparatory School, Charterhouse School (Lockites), and St John's College, Cambridge, he won an Oscar for the screenplay for the 1965 movie Darling, and two years later an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for Two for the Road. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1967 film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd directed by John Schlesinger.
His articles and book reviews appear in a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times and The Sunday Times. He has published more than twenty novels, the best-known of which is the semi-autobiographical The Glittering Prizes (1976), which traces the lives of a group of Cambridge...
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