About the Author

Born in 1931, Frederic Raphael was educated at Charterhouse and St John's College, Cambridge. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964. The first of his numerous novels was published in 1956; his most recent, Coast to Coast, is published by Orion. He adapted The Glittering Prizes (1976) and After the War (1988) for television. He has written stories, biographies of Somerset Maugham and Byron, and screenplays, including the Academy Award-winning Darling (1965) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1967). He was the screenwriter for Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut.