About...

Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1969, and educated at Harvard. He has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally failed entrepreneur, and a five-time Jeopardy! champion. He was one of the first clients of the Rusoff Agency at its founding in 2001.

His first novel, Prague, a national best-seller, was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, received The Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for best first novel, and has been translated into twelve languages. His second novel, The Egyptologist, was an international best-seller and is published in twenty-one languages. His third novel, Angelica, published in April of 2007, was a New York Times Editor's Choice, a Boston Globe bestseller and on the Washington Post Best Books of 2007 list. He also contributed a short story to the anthology Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
 

Awards and Special Recognition...

PRAGUE
National Bestseller
Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Winner
New York Times Notable Book
San Francisco Chronicle Top Book of the Year
People Magazine Best Book of the Year
Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction of 2002
Publishers Weekly Best Fiction of 2002
Newsweek Best Fiction of 2002
Seattle Times Best Fiction of 2002
Chicago Tribune Best Fiction of 2002
New York Public Library Best Fiction of 2002
Booksense 76 Selection
Wall Street Journal Summer Selection
Washington Post Summer Selection
Time Out New York Summer Selection
Entertainment Weekly Summer Selection
Salon.com Summer Selection
Amazon.com Summer Selection


THE EGYPTOLOGIST
National Bestseller
International Bestseller
Top Ten Books of 2006, Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly
People Magazine Four-Star Critic’s Choice
Los Angeles Times Bestseller
San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
Washington Post Bestseller
Christian Science Monitor Bestseller
Detroit Free Press Bestseller
San Jose Mercury News Bestseller
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Bestseller
Salt Lake Tribune Bestseller


ANGELICA
New York Times Editor's Choice
Boston Globe Bestseller
Life Magazine Editor’s Pick
Washington Post Best Books of 2007 list