Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael is an American-born British author, screenwriter, essayist and classicist who has had a distinguished career across multiple literary and cinematic forms. Born in 1931 in Chicago and educated at Cambridge, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Darling in 1965 and has written numerous novels, short story collections, translations and works of non-fiction. The World's Game explores football as a global cultural phenomenon, examining the sport's history, meaning and the passions it inspires. Raphael brings the sharp intelligence and literary sophistication that characterise his wider body of work to the world of sport. He is also known for his screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and for his published correspondence about the experience. His audiobooks and books demonstrate the remarkable range of a writer equally at home in Hollywood, classical scholarship and popular culture.