Biography
Nick Hornby, born in Redhill, Surrey, in 1957, read English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and worked as an English teacher before turning to writing full-time in the early 1990s. His breakthrough came in 1992 with “Fever Pitch”, an autobiographical book about his life as an Arsenal supporter, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award; it was followed by novels including “High Fidelity” (1995), “About a Boy” (1998), “How to Be Good” (2001), “A Long Way Down” (2005) and “Juliet, Naked” (2009). Pop music, football and people with near-compulsive passions play a large part in his books; many of them have been filmed, and “High Fidelity” also reached Broadway as a musical in 2006. As a screenwriter he wrote “An Education” (2009) and “Brooklyn” (2015), each of which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as “Wild” (2014). In 2019 his short-form series “State of the Union”, directed by Stephen Frears, followed a married couple before their weekly couples therapy; in Ingo Herzke’s German translation the text has been widely staged since its German-language premiere at Theater Oberhausen in 2022.
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