Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis in 1969 and educated at Harvard. His first novel, Prague, a US bestseller, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and received The Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for best first novel. His subsequent novels, The Egyptologist and Angelica, were both bestsellers and have been translated into twenty-five languages. His most recent book is The Song Is You. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
