Rafael Yglesias is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels ''Hide Fox, And All After'' and ''A Happy Marriage'', as well as the 1993 movie '' Fearless'', 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. '' Fearless'', directed by Peter Weir and starring

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, was critically acclaimed and led to Rosie Perez being nominated for an

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for her role as Carla Rodrigo. The film was also entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.

' 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 Ariel Dorfman; '' Les Misérables'', directed by

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and based on the novel by

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, and '' From Hell'', 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

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film of the same name and was directed by Walter Salles. 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

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. 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 David Duchovny, 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"
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References

External links

Author's website
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