Francis James Joseph Raphael Delaney (24 October 1942 – 21 February 2017)[1] was an Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster.

Over the next five-and-a-half years he interviewed over 1,400 authors, including Anthony Burgess, John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Christopher Isherwood and Stephen King.

He served as the Literature Director of the Edinburgh Festival in 1980, and hosted his own talk show Frank Delaney in the early 1980s, which featured many cultural and literary personalities.

Delaney wrote the screenplay for an adaptation of Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002), which starred Martin Clunes and was shown on ITV in Britain, and in the Masterpiece Theatre series in the United States.

[9] His articles were published by newspapers in United States, the UK and Ireland, including on the Op-ed pages of The New York Times.