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 Matthew Yglesias.

Career

Yglesias was born in New York in 1954, son of novelist and journalist Jose Yglesias, and author Helen Yglesias. He began writing screenplays in 1980. ''

'', directed by Peter Weir and starring Jeff Bridges, was critically acclaimed and led to Rosie Perez being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carla Rodrigo. The film was also entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. Jeff Bridges' 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 Roman Polanski and based on the play by Ariel Dorfman; ''

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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 '' Dark Water'' is a remake of a J-horror 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 Tom Schulman, he adapted ''The Anatomy of Hope'', a nonfiction book by Jerome Groopman about the psychological experience of illness, for HBO. The pilot was directed by J. J. Abrams but the network declined to move forward with a full series order. From 2014 to 2016, Yglesias worked on '' Aquarius'', 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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