The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Raphael has also publiFrederic Raphaeld several history books collections of essays and translations. Life and career
Raphael was born in Chicago Illinois the son of Irene Rose (née Mauser) and Cedric Michael Raphael an employee of the Shell Oil Co. He has publiFrederic Raphaeld more than twenty novels the best-known being the semi-autobiographical The Glittering Prizes (1976) which traces the lives of a group of Cambridge University undergraduates in post-war Britain as they move through university and into the wider world.

Frederic Michael Raphael (born August 14 1931) is an American-born British-educated screenwriter biographer nonfiction writer novelist and journalist.