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Nick Hornby was born on April 17, 1957, in Redhill, Surrey, United Kingdom. He graduated from Cambridge University. He later taught English to foreign students and wrote reviews and articles for various newspapers and magazines, including Esquire, London’s Sunday Times and The Independent, as well as GQ, Elle, Time, Vogue, Premiere, and Literary Review. Hornby’s first book was published in 1992 — a collection of critical essays on American writers. In the same year, his debut work of fiction, Fever Pitch, was published. The book was awarded the William Hill Prize as the best sports book of the year and was later adapted for the stage and made into a film. In 1995, Nick Hornby’s novel High Fidelity was published, followed three years later by About a Boy (1998). Both were soon adapted for the screen, with John Cusack and Hugh Grant playing the leading roles, respectively. In 1999, the writer was awarded the E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2001, Hornby’s new novel, How to Be Good, was published, in which the author examines modern morality, marriage, and parent-child relationships. Hornby then released 31 Songs (2003), in which he writes about 31 songs most significant to him. Nick Hornby lives in North London, within easy reach of the stadium of his favorite football team, Arsenal. In 1993, Hornby and his wife Virginia Bowell had a son, Danny. He was diagnosed with autism, after which Hornby took part in founding the charity TreeHouse for autistic children. He donated a significant part of the proceeds from the sale of the anthology Speaking with the Angel to it.