Author
Arthur Phillips
Birth Date
April 23, 1969
(57 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Arthur Phillips is an American novelist known for his intellectually ambitious and genre-blending fiction. Before turning to writing, he studied history and worked as a journalist, experiences that inform the historical depth and cultural detail in many of his novels.
He gained early acclaim with Prague, a novel that established his reputation for exploring themes of identity, illusion, and dislocation. His work often moves across time periods and settings, combining elements of literary fiction, mystery, and psychological insight.
Phillips’s novels are recognized for their intricate structures and thoughtful examination of perception and truth. He has built a reputation as a versatile and inventive writer, frequently challenging readers’ expectations about narrative and genre.
He gained early acclaim with Prague, a novel that established his reputation for exploring themes of identity, illusion, and dislocation. His work often moves across time periods and settings, combining elements of literary fiction, mystery, and psychological insight.
Phillips’s novels are recognized for their intricate structures and thoughtful examination of perception and truth. He has built a reputation as a versatile and inventive writer, frequently challenging readers’ expectations about narrative and genre.
Books
The year is 1601. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, childless. Her nervous kingdom has no heir. It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be...
Its doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young man struggling with a larger-than-life father, a con artist who works wonders of deception but is a most unreliable parent. Arthur is raised in an enchanted...
The Song Is You 2010
Each song on Julian’s iPod, “that greatest of all human inventions,” is a touchstone. There are songs for the girls from when he was single, there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, there’s...
Angelica 2008
London, the 1880s. In the dark of night, a chilling spectre is making its way through the Barton household, hovering over the sleeping daughter and terrorizing her fragile mother. Are these visions...
The Egyptologist 2005
From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of...
Prague 2003
A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their...