About Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby was born in 1957. His father, Sir Derek Hornby, was a successful businessman. Hornby junior went to Maidenhead Grammar School then studied English at Cambridge. After teaching in Cambridge, he worked for the Korean electronics giant Samsung as a meeter and greeter for their executives in the UK.
After that, he worked as a teacher then as a freelance journalist and then became a novelist. His career really took off with the phenomenally successful Fever Pitch in 1992 and he hasn't looked back since. How to be Good made the 2001 Booker long-list.
After that, he worked as a teacher then as a freelance journalist and then became a novelist. His career really took off with the phenomenally successful Fever Pitch in 1992 and he hasn't looked back since. How to be Good made the 2001 Booker long-list.
Novels
High Fidelity (1995)
About a Boy (1998)
How to Be Good (2001)
A Long Way Down (2005)
Click (2007) (with David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Deborah Ellis, Margo Lanagan, Gregory Maguire, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Sue Park and Tim Wynne-Jones)
Slam (2007)
About a Boy (1998)
How to Be Good (2001)
A Long Way Down (2005)
Click (2007) (with David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Deborah Ellis, Margo Lanagan, Gregory Maguire, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Sue Park and Tim Wynne-Jones)
Slam (2007)
Novellas
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Fever Pitch (1992)
31 songs (2002)
aka Songbook
Nick Hornby's Polysyllabic Spree (2004)
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (2006)
Housekeeping vs. Dirt (2006)
Shakespeare Wrote for Money (2008)
31 songs (2002)
aka Songbook
Nick Hornby's Polysyllabic Spree (2004)
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (2006)
Housekeeping vs. Dirt (2006)
Shakespeare Wrote for Money (2008)
Awards
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Links to other websites
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Nick Hornby recommends
 Going Down (1996) Jennifer Belle "Witty, gritty and thoroughly convincing." |  The Beach (1996) Alex Garland "THE BEACH is fresh, fast-paced, compulsive and clever – a LORD OF THE FLIES for the Generation X. It has all the makings of a cult classic." |  Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) (Bridget Jones, book 1) Helen Fielding "Helen Fielding is one of the funniest writers in Britain and Bridget Jones is a creation of comic genius." | |
 The Speed Queen (1997) Stewart O'Nan "A terrific novel, gripping, quirky, funny, violent and heartbreaking. I haven't read a better book so far this year." |  The Speckled People (2000) Hugo Hamilton "A wonderful book... thoughtful and compelling, smart and original, beautifully written." |  The Used Women's Book Club (2003) Paul Bryers "Bryers may be the best of his type." | |
 Havoc: In Its Third Year (2004) Ronan Bennett "With Greene gone, and Richard Ford last spotted in suburbia, we need writers like Ronan Bennett." |  How to Breathe Underwater: Stories (2004) Julie Orringer "Outstanding." |  What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006) Dave Eggers "One of the best writers around." | |
 Sharp Teeth (2007) Toby Barlow "As ambitious as any literary novel, because underneath all that fur, it's about identity, community, love, death, and all the things we want our books to be about." |  Then We Came to the End (2007) Joshua Ferris "Terrific . . . The rhythms and substance of a working day slowly revealed to have the rhythms and substance of life itself. " |
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