Nick Hornby

Person · Open Library

Born

1957

Works

194

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Film & TV

Writing · Redhill, Surrey, England, UK

Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English novelist, essayist and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy, and for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists.

Known for

• BookTube — Self2019
• 89 — Himself2017
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self2015
• Tapping the Wire — Self2007
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self2007
• The Culture Show — Self2004
• Fever Pitch — School Football Coach (uncredited)1997
• Omnibus — Self1967

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1957

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Listeners

3,448

Total plays

85,615

Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, as well as for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2009. Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, England. He was brought up in Maidenhead <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Nick+H

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. PGC-1α-responsive genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation are coordinately downregulated in human diabetes

   · 2003 · cited 9,287x

2. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission

   · 2020 · cited 9,228x

3. Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies

   · 2006 · cited 9,177x

4. The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 9,159x

5. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

   · 2007 · cited 7,930x

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Quotes

• “Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD — the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn’t — when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin’s wonderfully greasy sax.”
• “Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.”
• “I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”
• “By the early seventies I had become an Englishman — that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.”
• “As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.”
• “Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.”

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Key facts

Born

Nicholas Peter John Hornby , ( 1957-04-17 ) 17 April 1957 (age 69) , Redhill, Surrey , England

Occupation

Writer, editor, screenwriter

Alma mater

University of Cambridge

Period

1992–present

Genre

Fiction , non-fiction

Notable work

Fever Pitch (1992), High Fidelity (1995), About a Boy (1998)

Spouse

Amanda Posey ​ ( separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 2021 ) ​

Relatives

Derek Hornby (father) , Johnny Hornby (half-brother) , Robert Harris (brother-in-law)

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