Minnesota Monthly, November 1st, 2004
ARTHUR PHILLIPS HAS A BIO that wouldn't seem believable even for a character in one of his richly imagined novels, much less for a 35-year-old from Minneapolis. Yet the Harvard history grad has in fact been an ex-pat in Budapest, a jazz musician, a failed entrepreneur, and a five-time Jeopardy! winner. And after his acclaimed first book, Prague, became the sleeper hit of 2002, it's also accurate to call him one of the most envied and most talented young writers. His second novel, The Egyptologist, was released in August. It's a puckishly hilarious mystery that introduces a bawdy poet-king, exp...
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