Nick Hornby






Nick Hornby

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April 17, 1957

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place of birth
Redhill, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom

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Literature & Fiction, Entertainment


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Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. He is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award and the winner of the 2003 Orange Word International Writers’ London Award. Among his many other honors and awards, four of his titles have been named New York Times Notable Books. A film written by Hornby, An Education – shown at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim – will be the lead m...more




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Now that 'An Education' is out on general release, we have a never-ending queue of people happy to tell us where we have made mistakes with early-60s period detail. My mother-in-law is very anxious about a Pyrex dish in an early scene. (The word 'Pyrex' was invented by the glassware company in 1915.) Somebody else was troubled by the appearance of a tea-bag. (If you care, the tea-bag celebrat...

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High Fidelity High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
avg rating 3.97 — 16,696 ratings — published 1995
56 editions
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About a Boy About a Boy
by Nick Hornby
avg rating 3.78 — 11,264 ratings — published 1998
64 editions
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A Long Way Down A Long Way Down
by Nick Hornby
avg rating 3.29 — 11,880 ratings — published 2005
38 editions
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How to Be Good How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
avg rating 3.05 — 9,009 ratings — published 2001
35 editions
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Fever Pitch Fever Pitch
by Nick Hornby
avg rating 3.49 — 3,547 ratings — published 1992
33 editions
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Slam Slam
by Nick Hornby
avg rating 3.31 — 2,841 ratings — published 2007
24 editions
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The Polysyllabic Spree The Polysyllabic Spree
by Nick Hornby
avg rating 3.70 — 1,985 ratings — published 2004
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Speaking with the Angel Speaking with the Angel
by Nick Hornby, Irvine Welsh, Melissa Bank, Colin Firth, Giles Smith, Helen Fielding, Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith more...
avg rating 3.52 — 2,056 ratings — published 2000
8 editions
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Songbook Songbook
by Nick Hornby
avg rating 3.56 — 1,764 ratings — published 2002
4 editions
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Housekeeping vs. The Dirt Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
by Nick Hornby
avg rating 3.88 — 852 ratings — published 2006
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October 2009, Nick Hornby
"I'm frustrated by how much time has slipped by in my own life, and I've wasted more time than most, but I'm not sure I'd feel any better if I'd been more productive. For a start, my first couple of books were a product of all the times I'd wasted at football matches and in record stores." ...More

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"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
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"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobodies worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)
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"All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not."
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