Raphael, Frederic (1931– )

US-born British writer. His novels and short-story collections include Richard's Things (1976), The Glittering Prizes (1976), Coast to Coast (1999; television screenplay 2003), A Double Life (2000), and This Man, This Woman (2002). He co-wrote with Stanley Kubrick the screenplay Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and followed with the biography Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick (1999).

He wrote the original screenplay for John Schlesinger's Darling (1965), for which he won an Academy Award and a BAFTA in 1965, and for Stanley Donen's Two for the Road (1967). Raphael has also adapted works of authors including Thomas Hardy, Iris Murdoch, Henry James, and Arthur Schnitzler for the screen.