Hornby, Nick
Hornby, Nick ( 1957 – ),novelist and autobiographer, born in Redhill, Surrey. He began by writing journalism, some of it collected in Contemporary American Fiction ( 1992 ), a book of essays. The same year he published Fever Pitch, a hugely successful and influential memoir about his years as a supporter of Arsenal football club, which opened the floodgates for a whole new genre of male confessional writing. He then edited My Favourite Year ( 1993 ), an anthology of football pieces, and wrote two warm-hearted comic novels, High Fidelity ( 1995 ) and About a Boy ( 1998 ), which confirmed his position as the spokesman for a generation of emotionally bewildered young men. See also lads' literature .
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