His novel, How to Be Good (2001), explores contemporary morals, marriage and parenthood. A film version, starring Hugh Grant, premiered in 2002. His second novel, About a Boy (1998), focuses on the growing relationship between 30-something Will Freeman and Marcus, a 12-year-old boy. His first novel, High Fidelity (1995), is the story of an obsessive record collector and list-maker, and was adapted as a film in 2000 starring John Cusack. His fiction continues to explore male obsessions, crises and weaknesses.
In 2012, it was recognised for its Outstanding Contribution to Sports Writing at the British Sports Book Awards. It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and was adapted as both a play and a film, the latter starring Colin Firth. Fever Pitch, his memoir of a life devoted to Arsenal football club, was published in 1992. His first book, a series of critical essays on American novelists, was published in 1992. He graduated from Cambridge University and taught English to foreign students while reviewing for magazines including Time Out and the Literary Review. " Fever Pitch transcends the mundane and the sporty to say something about the way we live.Nick Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, England, in 1957. books reveal a fascination with the sheer voodoo of what so often passes for masculinity the weird ritual facts, the useless objects, the losing clubs and teams." - The New Yorker But above all, it is one for everyone who knows what it really means to have a losing season. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, Hornby’s award-winning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandom-its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young men’s coming-of-age stories. Fever Pitch is his tribute to a lifelong obsession. Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. And that’s before the players even take the field.
But in Great Britain, it is the real football. “Whether you are interested in football or not, this is tears-running-down-your-face funny, read-bits-out-loud-to-complete-strangers funny, but also highly perceptive and honest about Hornby’s obsession and the state of the game.” - GQĪ brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, Funny Girl, and High Fidelity.
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