Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby was born in 1957 in Surrey, England. He studied English Literature at Cambridge and continued his "studies" in Arsenal (football). He began his career as a teacher before starting to write novels that became bestsellers worldwide: "High Fidelity," "About a Boy," "How to Be Good," "A Long Way Down," "Slam," "Juliet, Naked," and the autobiographical "Fever Pitch." He has also written "31 Songs" (a book of music reviews, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and a collection of book reviews titled "The Complete Polysyllabic Spree." Additionally, he is the author of the short story collection "Pandemonium" and the editor of the anthologies "My Favourite Year" and "Speaking with the Angel." In 1999, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Hornby the E. M. Forster Award, and in 2002, he received the W.H. Smith Award. Recently, he wrote the screenplay for the film "An Education." "High Fidelity" was successfully adapted into a film starring John Cusack and Catherine Zeta-Jones, with a guest appearance by Bruce Springsteen. Nick Hornby lives and works in Highbury, North London.