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Michael Frayn has written plays, novels, and screenplays, in additioin to being a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and translator of Chekhov. His thirteen plays include Copenhagen, which was awarded the Tony Award for Best Play, as well as the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards and, in the United Kingdom, the Olivier and Evening Standard awards. His novel Headlong was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent novel, Spies, was published in 2002. Born in London in 1933 and educated at Cambridge, Frayn is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin; they live in London.

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Copenhagen

Written by Michael Frayn

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 8, 2000
Price: $15.00

In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionized atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world... Read more >

Copenhagen

Written by Michael Frayn

Format: eBook, 144 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 4, 2010
Price: $13.99

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Noises Off

Written by Michael Frayn

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $15.00

This classic farce by the Tony Award-winning author of Copenhagen has been newly revised for the enormously successful revival, currently on Broadway starring Patti LuPone, Peter Gallagher, and Faith Prince.

Noises Off—which ran in London's West End for nearly five years when first staged—is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional... Read more >

Noises Off

Written by Michael Frayn

Format: eBook, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $13.99

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