Alex Michaelides is a bestselling British Cypriot author and screenwriter. His debut novel, the psychological thriller The Silent Patient, is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, with over 6.5 million copies sold. Born and raised in Cyprus, Alex has a rich educational background with an M.A. in English literature from Trinity College, Cambridge University, and an M.A. in screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The Silent Patient was his first novel and achieved significant acclaim, being the biggest-selling debut in the world in 2019. It spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and was sold in a record-breaking forty-nine countries. Alex resides in London.