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Full articleFrederic Michael Raphael (born 14 August 1931) is an American-born British novelist, screenwriter, biographer, and essayist of Jewish descent. Born in Chicago to an American mother and English father, he relocated to England in 1938 and was educated at Charterhouse School and St John's College, Cambridge. Raphael gained prominence with his debut novel Obligato in 1956 and achieved critical acclaim for screenplays including the satirical Nothing but the Best (1964) and the Oscar-winning Darling (1965), which satirized swinging London society. His later works encompass the television series The Glittering Prizes (1976), adaptations like Eyes Wide Shut (1999) for Stanley Kubrick, and memoirs such as Eyes Wide Open (1999), which drew criticism from Kubrick's associates for its candid portrayal of their collaboration. Raphael's oeuvre, spanning over two dozen novels and translations of classical texts, reflects a recurring theme of disillusionment with modern culture and personal ambition.
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Frederic Michael Raphael (born 14 August 1931) is an American-born British novelist, biographer, journalist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Darling, Far from the Madding Crowd, Two for the Road, and Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut. Raphael rose to prominence in the early 1960s with the publication of several acclaimed novels, but most notably with the release of the John Schlesinger film Darling, starring Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde, a romantic drama set in Swinging London, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1966. Two years later he was nominated again in the same category, this time for his work on Stanley Donen’s Two for the Road, starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney.
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