Nick hornby life biography

With just two novels and one memoir of his life as a soccer fan to his credit, Nick Hornby has become one of the defining voices of the past decade. He is a keenly observant recorder of, and self-deprecating commentator on, the changing nature of masculine identity in the late twentieth century.

His men—whether the autobiographical Arsenal fan of Fever Pitch or the fictionalized protagonists of the no less punningly titled novels, High Fidelity and About a Boy—would have been minor cads in any earlier period, but in Hornby's narratives of "the way we live now," they strike a surprisingly sympathetic chord.

Their plights, however self-created, make them seem strangely poignant and therefore more deserving of the reader's compassion than of his, or her, disdain.

Hornby's phenomenal success (all three books have been bestsellers and High Fidelity turned into a critically acclaimed and commercially successful film) derives in large measure fro