Alex Michaelides

Alex Michaelides is a British Cypriot author and screenwriter born in Cyprus in 1977 to a Greek-Cypriot father and an English mother. He studied English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge University, earning an MA, and later obtained an MA in screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. His debut novel, the psychological thriller The Silent Patient, became a New York Times bestseller with over 6.5 million copies sold worldwide, followed by the equally successful The Maidens.[1][2][3][7]