biography
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Raphael, Frederic (Michael)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1931– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and biographer, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied at Charterhouse and St John's College, Cambridge. He has adapted several of his novels for the screen, including Richard's Things (1973) and The Glittering Prizes (1976), which became a popular television series. Other television work has included adaptations of the novels of Roy Fuller and Geoffrey Household (1900–88). In 1966 he won an Oscar for the screenplay of his novel Darling (1965). He won three British Screenwriters Awards in the 1960s. His biographies include W Somerset Maugham and his World (1977, revised 1989), Byron (1982), and Eyes Wide Open (1999), about the writing of the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. |
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