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Hornby, Nick

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Hornby, Nick (1957– ), British novelist and autobiographer, born in Redhill, Surrey. He began by writing journalism, some of it collected in Contemporary American Fiction (1992, essays). Fever Pitch (1992), is a 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 the comic novels High Fidelity (1995), About a Boy (1998), and How to be Good (2001), which confirmed his position as the spokesman for a generation of emotionally bewildered young men.

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