Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and award-winning author. Prior to his screenplay BROOKLYN, Hornby adapted Cheryl Strayed's NY Times bestselling memoir into the film WILD, which was directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, and starred Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.

Nick was Oscar and BAFTA-nominated for his screenplay adaptation of Lynn Barber's memoir AN EDUCATION, directed by Lone Scherfig and starring Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike and Emma Thompson, and he adapted his own memoir for the screenplay of FEVER PITCH starring Colin Firth.

Many of Nick's international best-selling books have served as a rich stream of inspiration for filmmakers: the British film of FEVER PITCH was re-made by the Farrelly brothers, starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon; HIGH FIDELITY was directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Cusack and Jack Black; ABOUT A BOY was directed by the Weitz brothers, starring Hugh Grant, Rachel Weisz and Toni Collette; and A LONG WAY DOWN was directed by Pascal Chaumeil, starring Pierce Brosnan, Aaron Paul and Toni Collette.

Nick's other novels include Slam (2007) for young adults (currently being developed as an Italian language feature by the makers of IL DIVO); How to be Good (2001); Juliet, Naked  (2009); and his novel Funny Girl was published by Penguin in the UK in November 2014, and by Riverhead in the US in February 2015.

As well as Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award), Nick has written several other works of non-fiction including; 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award in America) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, a collection of Nick's book columns for the influential US magazine The Believer (also subscribed to worldwide) and to which he continues to contribute a bimonthly column. Nick is also a recipient of the EM Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

In November 2010, Nick co-founded the children's writing charity The Ministry of Stories, located in East London, now expanding to other UK cities.

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