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Frederic Raphael

Writer, critic and broadcaster, Frederic Raphael was educated at Charterhouse School and at St John's College, Cambridge. He has written several screenplays and fifteen novels. His The Glittering Prizes was one of the major British and American television successes of the 1970s.


“Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”
Frederic Raphael
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“How is your writing going, Michael?""Still from the top of the page on down, Mrs. Raglan.”
Frederic Raphael
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“Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.”
Frederic Raphael
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