Author

Alex Michaelides

Cypriot-British novelist and screenwriter, born in Cyprus in 1977 to a Greek-Cypriot father and an English mother. He read English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, took a degree in psychotherapy in London and then spent two years working on a secure unit for adolescents, an experience that shapes the clinical detail of his fiction. After writing for film, he published The Silent Patient in 2019; it went straight to number one on the New York Times list and has been translated into more than fifty languages. He followed it with The Maidens (2021) and The Fury (2024).