Biography
Nick Hornby is an English writer, novelist and screenwriter. Born Nicholas Peter John Hornby on 17 April 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, he was educated at the University of Cambridge.
He is best known for the memoir Fever Pitch (1992) and the novels High Fidelity (1995) and About a Boy (1998), several of which have been adapted for film. As a screenwriter, he wrote the screenplay for An Education (2009), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay; he was also nominated for Brooklyn (2015) and wrote the screenplays for Wild (2014) and other adaptations.
