Arthur Phillips

Arthur Phillips is an American novelist born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, educated at Harvard University with a BA in history, and who studied jazz saxophone at Berklee College of Music. He lived in Budapest from 1990 to 1992, worked as a child actor, jazz musician, speechwriter, failed entrepreneur, and five-time Jeopardy! champion. His debut novel Prague (2002) won the Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, followed by acclaimed works like The Egyptologist, Angelica, The Song Is You, The Tragedy of Arthur, and The King at the Edge of the World.