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Encyclopedia > Frederic Raphael

Frederic Michael Raphael (born Chicago, 1931) is an American-born, British-educated screenwriter, as well as a prolific novelist and journalist. Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ...


He is the son of Cedric Michael Raphael (who was an employee of Shell Oil Co.) and Irene Rose Mauser. With his parents, he emigrated to Putney, England in 1968(?) . 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. Putney is a district of south-west London in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total 130... Copthorne Preparatory School is situated in West Sussex for students aged between 2 and 13. ... Charterhouse School (Originally, Suttons Hospital in Charterhouse), usually known simply as Charterhouse, is a famous boys English public school, located in Godalming in the county of Surrey. ... College name The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge Motto Souvent me Souvient (Latin: I often remember) Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist Established 1511 Location St. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Darling (1965) is a British film which tells the story of an amoral model who sleeps her way to success. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Two for the Road is a 1967 movie directed by Stanley Donen about the twelve-year relationship between an architect (Albert Finney) and his wife (Audrey Hepburn). ... Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) — an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement — delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. ... Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1967 feature film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted from the book of the same name by Thomas Hardy. ... John Richard Schlesinger (February 16, 1926–July 25, 2003) was a British film director. ...


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 University undergraduates in post-war Britain as they move through university and into the wider world. His adaptation of the book into a BBC series won him a Royal Television Society Writer of the Year Award. This just IN !!!:paris hiltons new dog. ... The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... The Royal Television Society is a British-based society for the discussion, analysis and preservation of television in all its forms, past, present and future. ...


Raphael has also published several history books, collections of essays and translations. He has also written biographies of Somerset Maugham and Lord Byron. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964. W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ... Lord Byron, English poet Lord Byron (1803), as painted by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824) was the most widely read English language poet of his day. ... The Royal Society of Literature is the senior literary organisation in Britain. External link The Royal Society of Literature Categories: Literature stubs | Literature of the United Kingdom ...


In 1999, Raphael published Eyes Wide Open, a memoir of his collaboration with legendary director Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick's final movie. That year, Penguin Books also published a new translation of Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Story, the basis for Eyes Wide Shut, featuring an introduction by Raphael. “Kubrick” redirects here. ... Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 feature-length motion picture directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novella Traumnovelle (in English Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler. ... Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ... Arthur Schnitzler Arthur Schnitzler (May 15, 1862 - October 21, 1931) was an Austrian writer and doctor. ... Traumnovelle (Dream Story) is a novella by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. ...


He married Sylvia Betty Glatt, on January 17, 1955 and their children are Paul Simon, Sarah Natasha, and Stephen Matthew Joshua. Their late daughter Sarah Raphael (1960-2001) was a famous painter. January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Contents

Works

Fiction

  • Obbligato 1956
  • The Earlsdon Way 1958
  • The Limits of Love 1960
  • A Wild Surmise 1961
  • The Graduate Wife 1962
  • The Trouble with England 1962
  • Lindmann 1963
  • Orchestra and Beginners 1967
  • Like Men Betrayed 1970
  • Who Were You With Last Night? 1971
  • April, June and November 1972
  • Richard’s Things 1973
  • California Time 1975
  • The Glittering Prizes 1976
  • Oxbridge Blues 1979

Other

  • Somerset Maugham and his World 1976
  • The Poems of Catullus (with Kenneth McLeish) 1976
  • The List of Books: A library of over 3000 works (with Kenneth McLeish) Harmony Books, New York, 1981. ISBN 0-517-540177.
  • Eyes Wide Open 1999

Screenplays (partial list)

Nothing But the Best is a 1964 British comedy film directed by Clive Donner. ... Darling (1965) is a British film which tells the story of an amoral model who sleeps her way to success. ... Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1967 feature film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted from the book of the same name by Thomas Hardy. ... Two for the Road is a 1967 movie directed by Stanley Donen about the twelve-year relationship between an architect (Albert Finney) and his wife (Audrey Hepburn). ... Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. ... Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 feature-length motion picture directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novella Traumnovelle (in English Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler. ...

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