Biography
Hornby was educated at Maidenhead Grammar School and studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge. He began his career as a teacher, so left to act as a mercenary journalist & late as a novelist.

Hornby built his title 1st by owning Fever Pitch (1992) a memoir of his womb-to-tomb trend lines of Arsenal F.C. That book, and his first and second novels, High Fidelity (1995) and About a Boy (1998), draw on the author's life experience and find particular appeal among men in their twenties and thirties.

Around 1999 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

How to be Good (2001) marked the shift for Hornby therein it was his 1st novel to feature a female storyteller. 2005 saw the publication of his virtually all recent novel, A Long Way Down, and of Otherwise Pandemonium, which contains two short stories & is section of Penguin Books' 70th day of remembrance Pocket Penguin collection.

Hornby has likewise written essays in various aspects of popular culture, & particularly has be something of an authoritative literary voice for pop music & mix tape enthusiasts. Additionally to writing music reviews for publications like The New Yorker, Hornby published the 2003 anthology 31 Songs (known in the United States as Songbook), a collectiin of essays on selected popular songs & (further typically) a specific emotional resonance it carry for him. He besides began writing the book view column, "Stuff I've Been Reading," for the each month magazine The Believer; several one articles come collected in The Polysyllabic Spree (2004).

Hornby has besides edited ii sports-related anthologies, The Favorite Month & A Picador Book of Sports Writing, also when a short-fiction collection Speaking with the Angel, to which he contributed the story "NippleJesus."

Film adaptations
Many of Hornby's books keep close at hand processed a go for it from either website to screen. Hornby wrote the screenplay for the number one, a 1997 British adaptation of Fever Pitch, starring Colin Firth. It was followed around 2000 by High Fidelity, starring John Cusack; this adaptation was notable in that a action was shifted from either London to Chicago. When this profits, Astir the Son was quickly picked higher, & freed inside 2002, starring Hugh Grant. An Americanized Fever Pitch, in which Jimmy Fallon plays a hopelessly addicted Boston Red Sox fan who attempts to reconcile his love of the game therewith of his girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), was released around 2005. It appears probably that An extended Way Down might likewise become adapted; Johnny Depp purchased film rights to the book before it was potentially published.

Bibliography
Novels
(1995) High Fidelity ISBN 0140293469 (1998) About a Boy ISBN 0141007338 (2002) How to Be Good ISBN 0140287019 (2005) A Long Way Down ISBN 0670888249

Non-fiction
(1992) Fever Pitch ISBN 014029344 (2003) 31 Songs (aka Songbook) ISBN 0141013400 (2004) Nick Hornby's The Polysyllabic Spree ISBN 1932416242

Anthologies edited
(1993) My Favorite Season: The Collection of Football Writing ISBN 0753814412 (1996) The Picador Book of Sportswriting ISBN 0330331337 (2000) Speaking with a Angel (2000) ISBN 0140296786

Filmography
1997 Fever Pitch — directed by David Evans 2000 High Fidelity — directed by Stephen Frears 2002 About a Boy — directed by Chris and Paul Weitz 2005 Fever Pitch'' — directed by Farrelly brothers