Rafael Yglesias (born May 12, 1954) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

Yglesias was born and raised in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood and now lives in Greenwich Village. He dropped out of high school upon publication of his first novel, Hide Fox, and All After in 1972. Later in life he began writing screenplays leading, eventually, to the production of his first movie, Fearless an adaptation of his novel of the same title. His parents are the novelists José Yglesias and Helen Yglesias and blogger and journalist Matthew Yglesias is his son.

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

Screenplays

• Fearless
• Death and the Maiden
• Les Miserables
• From Hell
• Dark Water

External links

• Rafael Yglesias IMDB page
• Interview in Script Magazine