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Nick Hornby was born in 1957, and is the author of: Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to Be Good. He also edited the collection of short stories, Speaking with the Angel and is the pop music critic for the New Yorker.

In 1999, Hornby was awarded the E.M.Forster award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and was a teacher before turning to writing full-time. Before turning his attention to fiction, Hornby was a regular contributor to Esquire, the London Sunday Times, and The Independent. He has also written for GQ, Elle, Time, The New Republic, Vogue, and Premiere .

Two of Nick Hornby's previous books were number-one bestsellers in England: the 1995 novel High Fidelity, a critic's favorite on both sides of the Atlantic; and his first book, the memoir Fever Pitch. Film rights for High Fidelity were bought by Disney's Touchstone Pictures, and the major motion picture starring John Cusack was a hit both in the U.S. and abroad. A film version of Fever Pitch, with a screenplay by Hornby, was released in England by Channel Four Films. Robert DeNiro's Tribeca Films and New Line recently paid nearly three million dollars for the screen rights to About a Boy.

Nick Hornby lives in North London, within walking distance of his favorite football (soccer to us Yanks) team, the Arsenal.

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