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Frederic Raphael was born in Chicago in 1931 and educated at Charterhouse and St John's College, Cambridge. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964. His novels include The Glittering Prizes (1976), Coast to Coast (1998) and Fame and Fortune (2007); he has also written short stories and biographies of Somerset Maugham and Byron. Frederic Raphael is a leading screenwriter, whose work includes the Academy Award-winning Darling (1965), Two for the Road (1967), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), and the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut. The first volume of Personal Terms was published by Carcanet in 2001, Rough Copy, the second volume, in 2004 and the third volume, Cuts and Bruises in 2006.

Praise for Frederic Raphael Aphoristic, lapidary and sumptuously reflective by turns, Personal Terms is a joy to read both for Raphael's prose and mental powers. It is a book of iridescent intelligence, seductive charm, urbane temper and unflagging delight - indeed a minor masterpiece. - Times Literary Supplement

Frederic Raphael was the first man to use a four-letter word in The Spectator : the work of his fellow playwright Stephen King-Hall, he wrote in 1957, made him 'puke'. read more

Any human being contains multitudes, and within a multitude there are bound to be contradictions and confusions. read more

Ifs and Buts is the fifth volume of Frederic Raphael's notebooks to have been published by Carcanet. read more

Frederic Raphael's Ifs and Buts , his fifth volume of notebooks, is published by Carcanet. read more

By now I've begun to acquire special taste for the successive vokumes of Frederic Raphael's not-quite-diary extracts, his cahiers , descrbied by him, accurately, as a "mixture of pensees and showbiz, prtraits and caricatures". read more

Dido, the dumped boy Frederic Raphael must have been culling, deleting, explaining, and, surely, polishing a generation's bag of jokes, anecdotes, reminiscences, scholarly quotations and impressive generalizations (omitting the minority that do not impress) in notebooks for years. read more

The lonely sniper in middle age: a review of Ticks and Crosses Writer’s notebooks, says Frederic Raphael in the introduction to this fourth instalment of his own, are ‘often among their most enjoyable legacy’. read more

Glittering gobbets of a cultural wizar d, the Jewish Circle Frederic Raphael proves no less the pyrotechnic penseur in his private diaries than he is in his 20-odd novels and such cinéaste-favoured screenplays as Darling and Eyes Wide Shut . Ticks and Crosses , subtitled Personal Terms 4 , is a volume of jottings from journals covering the late 1970s. read more

'What does it feel like to be the most famous man in London?'� read more

Marcus Berkmann, The Spectator A screenwriter's lot is not a happy one. read more

Selected by George Greig, editor of Tatler as his Book of the Year, 2004, in the Observer
As a perfect stocking filler, Sarah Raphael: Drawings , with essays by Frederic Raphael, Clive James and William Boyd is a moving tale of a huge talent cut short by early death. read more

The Independent , Friday 28 May, 2004 Frederic Raphael's notebooks (this second selection covers 1970-73) reveal the 'chip of ice' that, according to Graham Greene, lurks in the heart of a writer. read more

Selected by the politician, journalist and author George Walden as his Book of the Year 2004 in the Sunday Telegraph This second volume of extracts from his notebooks, described as letters to himself ( Personal Terms was the first), covers the early Seventies, and contains the sharpest writing of the year. read more

Reviewed by Richard Davenport-Hines in the Times Literary Supplement , 2nd July 2004 The first volume of Personal Terms was hailed as a minor masterpiece on its publication in 2001. read more

Reviewed in The Sunday Times This second volume of Raphael's cahiers takes us into the early 1970s, when their writer is busy straddling, sometimes awkwardly, the worlds of literature, where he acts with 'showbiz brazenness', and showbiz, where he performs the part of the 'intellectual parachutist'. read more

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Frederic Raphael Books by this author: There and Then Ifs and Buts Satyrica (Tr.) Ticks and Crosses Cuts and Bruises Drawings (Ed.) Rough Copy The Benefits of Doubt Personal Terms The Necessity of Anti-Semitism About Reviews Frederic Raphael was born in Chicago in 1931 and educated at Charterhouse and St John's College, Cambridge. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964. His novels include The Glittering Prizes (1976), Coast to Coast (1998) and Fame and Fortune (2007); he has also written short stories and biographies of Somerset Maugham and Byron. Frederic Raphael is a leading screenwriter, whose work includes the Academy Award-winning Darling (1965), Two for the Road (1967), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), and the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut. The first volume of Personal Terms was published by Carcanet in 2001, Rough Copy, the second volume, in 2004 and the third volume, Cuts and Bruises in 2006. Praise for Frederic Raphael Aphoristic, lapidary and sumptuously reflective by turns, Personal Terms is a joy to read both for Raphael's prose and mental powers. It is a book of iridescent intelligence, seductive charm, urbane temper and unflagging delight - indeed a minor masterpiece. - Times Literary Supplement Frederic Raphael was the first man to use a four-letter word in The Spectator : the work of his fellow playwright Stephen King-Hall, he wrote in 1957, made him 'puke'. read more Any human being contains multitudes, and within a multitude there are bound to be contradictions and confusions. read more Ifs and Buts is the fifth volume of Frederic Raphael's notebooks to have been published by Carcanet. read more Frederic Raphael's Ifs and Buts , his fifth volume of notebooks, is published by Carcanet. read more By now I've begun to acquire special taste for the successive vokumes of Frederic Raphael's not-quite-diary extracts, his cahiers , descrbied by him, accurately, as a "mixture of pensees and showbiz, prtraits and caricatures". read more Dido, the dumped boy Frederic Raphael must have been culling, deleting, explaining, and, surely, polishing a generation's bag of jokes, anecdotes, reminiscences, scholarly quotations and impressive generalizations (omitting the minority that do not impress) in notebooks for years. read more The lonely sniper in middle age: a review of Ticks and Crosses Writer’s notebooks, says Frederic Raphael in the introduction to this fourth instalment of his own, are ‘often among their most enjoyable legacy’. read more Glittering gobbets of a cultural wizar d, the Jewish Circle Frederic Raphael proves no less the pyrotechnic penseur in his private diaries than he is in his 20-odd novels and such cinéaste-favoured screenplays as Darling and Eyes Wide Shut . Ticks and Crosses , subtitled Personal Terms 4 , is a volume of jottings from journals covering the late 1970s. read more 'What does it feel like to be the most famous man in London?'� read more Marcus Berkmann, The Spectator A screenwriter's lot is not a happy one. read more Selected by George Greig, editor of Tatler as his Book of the Year, 2004, in the Observer As a perfect stocking filler, Sarah Raphael: Drawings , with essays by Frederic Raphael, Clive James and William Boyd is a moving tale of a huge talent cut short by early death. read more The Independent , Friday 28 May, 2004 Frederic Raphael's notebooks (this second selection covers 1970-73) reveal the 'chip of ice' that, according to Graham Greene, lurks in the heart of a writer. read more Selected by the politician, journalist and author George Walden as his Book of the Year 2004 in the Sunday Telegraph This second volume of extracts from his notebooks, described as letters to himself ( Personal Terms was the first), covers the early Seventies, and contains the sharpest writing of the year. read more Reviewed by Richard Davenport-Hines in the Times Literary Supplement , 2nd July 2004 The first volume of Personal Terms was hailed as a minor masterpiece on its publication in 2001. read more Reviewed in The Sunday Times This second volume of Raphael's cahiers takes us into the early 1970s, when their writer is busy straddling, sometimes awkwardly, the worlds of literature, where he acts with 'showbiz brazenness', and showbiz, where he performs the part of the 'intellectual parachutist'. read more	Share this... Quick Links Aspects of Portugal Audio Books Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry Comma Press FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog Let's Gimbal! read more Carcanet New Poetry Showcase: The Audience Writes Back read more John Gallas: A Little Andaluciad read more Carcanet Poetry Showcase: 30th April read more The Manchester Writing Competition 2013 read more Six Sixty-Six: Infinity by Gabriel Josipovici read more
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