Rafael Yglesias is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels, Hide Fox, And All After, A Happy Marriage, and the 1993 movie ''

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'', which he adapted from his own novel of the same name. He is the father of Nicholas and

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Career

Yglesias was born in New York in 1954, son of novelist and journalist

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, and author

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. He began writing screenplays in 1980. ''

'', directed by

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and starring

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, was critically acclaimed and led to

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being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carla Rodrigo. The film was also entered into the

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' role as Max Klein is widely regarded as one of the best performances of his career. Yglesias' other screenplays include '' Death and the Maiden'', directed by

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and based on the play by

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; ''

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'', directed by

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and based on the novel by

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, and ''

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'', directed by the

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and based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. His film ''

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'' is a remake of a

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film of the same name and was directed by

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. Yglesias turned to television writing in the mid-2000s when, with screenwriter

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, he adapted ''The

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'', a nonfiction book by

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about the psychological experience of illness, for

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. The pilot was directed by

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but the network declined to move forward with a full series order. From 2014 to 2016, Yglesias worked on ''

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'', created by John McNamara and starring

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, ultimately writing five episodes of the two-season series.

Novels

* ''Hide Fox, and All After'' * ''The Work Is Innocent'' * ''The Game Player'' * ''Hot Properties'' * ''Only Children'' * ''The Murderer Next Door'' * ''Fearless'' * ''Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil'' * ''A Happy Marriage'' * ''The Wisdom of Perversity''Joyce Carol Oates NY Times Review of "The Wisdom of Perversity"
/ref> * ''Fabulous at Fifty''

References

External links

Author's website
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