Biography
Frederic Raphael is an American-born British novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Chicago in 1931 and educated at Charterhouse and St John's College, Cambridge.
He is known for his screenplays for Darling (1965), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Two for the Road (1967), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999), co-written with Stanley Kubrick. He has also written more than twenty novels and several biographies, and published the memoir Eyes Wide Open (1999) about his collaboration with Kubrick.
