Alex Michaelides

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Alex Michaelides was born and raised in Cyprus. The Silent Patient was his first novel and debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. | author biography about Alex Michaelides Alex was born on the small Mediterranean island of Cyprus, to an English mother and a Greek-Cypriot father. He was fortunate enough to grow up in a house full of books. His mother amassed a small library and all the authors who later influenced him as a writer – Charles Dickens, Evelyn Waugh, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Robert Graves, Henry James – were taken off the shelves and handed to him by his mother with the instruction ‘to read’. (An action she possibly regretted when he became a struggling writer!) But ironically his first and most profound reading experience had nothing to do with his mother. She was perhaps a bit of a literary snob and d

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