Nick Hornby was born in 1957. He was married, but is now divorced from his wife. They have got an auticstic son called Danny (read an interview with Nick Hornby about the family situation). He studied at Cambridge and later on worked as a teacher and journalist before publishing his first nonfiction book, Fever Pitch. 

Fever Pitch describes in embarrassingly confessional detail his lifelong obsession with the English football team Arsenal. The book has now sold nearly 300,000 copies, and spent nearly a year on the bestseller lists. But it didn't kill his obsession. Hornby still spends every winter Saturday watching his team. He regards sport and rock-and-roll as essential, if regrettable, components of the male psyche.

by Helge

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