Frederic Raphael is a BAFTA and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, author and journalist. He wrote the screenplays for Oscar-winning Darling (1965), Oscar-nominated Two for the Road (1967) and the 1967 adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. As a journalist, his articles have been published in The Sunday Times and the Los Angeles Times. As a prolific author, Raphael has written numerous works of fiction and translation, as well as history, essays and memoirs, most notably The Glittering Prizes (1976) and Eyes Wide Open (1999).