Rafael Yglesias
Rafael Yglesias ( born May 12, 1954 in New York City ) is an American author and screenwriter.
Rafael Yglesias is the son of Cuban -born writer Jose Yglesias and the Jewish- Russian -born writer Helen Iglesias. He was born in Washington Heights, Manhattan and grew up there as well. Yglesias began writing at a young age. He left school after the 10th grade to finish his first novel, Hide Fox, and After All. The novel was published in 1972. It appeared in the following years, six more novels. In 1990, he then wrote his first screenplay for an American television game. Appeared in 1993, the film adaptation of his novel Fearless - Beyond the fear. For this film, he wrote a screenplay for a movie for the first time. Directed by Peter Weir. A year later appeared Roman Polanski's Death and the Maiden. Yglesias had written the screenplay based on the play by Ariel Dorfman.
After thirteen years break as a novelist Yglesias wrote the novel A Happy Marriage, which was published under the title Happy Marriage in German in 2010. The book is about the marriage Yglesias ' with artist Margaret Joskow, who died after 30 years of marriage in 2004 of cancer.
The couple has two sons who are also active as a writer.