Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. Copenhagen is the sixteenth of his plays, which include Noises Off, Benefactors and Wild Honey (adapted from Chekhov's untitled play), and he has done a number of translations, mostly from the Russian. His nine novels include Towards the End of the Morning (in the USA Against Entropy), The Trick of It, A Landing on the Sun, and Headlong. Methuen have published two selections of his columns, The Original Michael Frayn and The Additional Michael Frayn. He is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.