Biography
Type: Novelist, essayist, lyricist
Born: 17 April 1957
Died:
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.
Hornby lives in North London.
Novels:
- (1995) High Fidelity
- (1998) About a Boy
- (2001) How to Be Good
- (2005) A Long Way Down
- (2007) Slam
- (2009) Juliet, Naked
- (2014) Funny Girl
Screenplays:
- (1997) Fever Pitch — directed by David Evans
- (2009) An Education — directed by Lone Scherfig
- (2014) Wild — directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
- (2015) Brooklyn — directed by John Crowley
TV Stories:
- (2016) Love, Nina
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