“Whether you want to entertain or to
provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must
consist of your longings and disappointments.” –
Rafael Yglesias
Born in New York on this date in 1954, novelist and screenwriter Yglesias is
perhaps best known for his book and screenplay Fearless, both
multiple award winners and nominees. A “sandwich” member in a family
writers – the son of two and father of two – he also is married to a writer,
the novelist Ann Packer.
Literally a “born writer,” Yglesias wrote his first successful novel, Hide Fox, And After All in the 10th grade, and his novel A Happy Marriage also won multiple awards. His latest is The Wisdom of Perversity. Among his many writing successes for the screen is his popular version of Les Miserables, featuring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush and Uma Thurman.
Noted for creating complex
characters, he said, “The most fun thing about being a writer is that
everything is interesting.”
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