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Alex Michaelides is a screenwriter and author. He studied English literature at Cambridge University and later got his MA in screenwriting at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Silent Patient and also wrote the film The Devil You Know that starred Rosamund Pike.

Alex also worked as a writer on The Brits are Coming, a film that starred Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Parker Posey and Sofia Vergara. He is the son of a Greek father and English mother. For his debut novel, Michaelides set out to write something that he wanted to read as well as something that he felt belonged on the same shelf as an Agatha Christie novel. It was his frustration with the screenwriting industry that led to this book as he set out to write the type of book that he wanted to write.

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