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Nick Hornby  // - the author of High Fidelity //   

[|Source] **__ Hornby’s youth __**** : ** Nick Hornby was born the 7th April, 1959. He grew up in the small town Redhill in England. His father was a successful businessman, while the mother was from lower-middle-class. When Hornby was 11 his parents got divorced, and he grew up with his mother. It was his father that allowed him to go to Maidenhead Grammar School, before he moved on and studied English at Cambrigde University. He never really felt like he fitted in here. Hornby has later stated: //“// // Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience.” // He started as an English teacher, but has had many other jobs in the later years as a host for Samsung executives visiting the UK and wrote a music critic for the //New Yorker//. When he graduated from the university he tried to write essays, however none of them were quite good. Therefore he used much time to read books like Anne Tyler and Raymond Carver, before he found out which type of author he wanted to be. It was not until now that he started to write his first novels. Today he lives in North London with his wife Virginia Bovell, and they have one child together. The child was born with autism, and this resulted in Hornby becoming cofounder of a British charity. They are working to provide additional education to these children. He started as a journalist, and wrote features for magazines like Time Out and Vouge. His first book were published in year 1992. The book was called //Contemporary American Fiction//; witch is a collection of critical essays. He published his foremost novel: //Fever Pitch// in 1997, this is a book about his huge interest in soccer. Everyone was surprised over the book’s immediate response in the public. Hornby became a well-known author with the novels: //High Fidelity, About a Boy, How to be Good// and //A Long Way Down.// Three of his novels have also been made into movies. Hornby and his novels are today known world-wide. In 2007 he wrote his first novel for young-adults. The book is called //slam// and is about a boy that has to grow up earlier than he expected because he is soon going to be a father. You can see in his writing that Nick Hornby grew up in a middle-class society, where he never felt good enough. The characters in his books are usually an average male in his thirties and are interested in either music or sports. They also often feel like losers. His novels have an entertaining and funny style with hidden depth. They often end in a sunny note, but as Hornby himself has stated it is just a way to cope with the sadness: // 'I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognize that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we have our hearts broken, suffer the loss of loved ones, worry ourselves half to death about our kids.” //
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