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	Hornby, Nick - MSN Encarta
		Hornby shot to fame with the publishing of Fever Pitch (1992), his memoir of life as a follower of Arsenal Football Club, a study of obsession that went beyond football to present a droll analysis of the male psyche.
		Hornby’s parents had divorced when he was 11 years old, and his father had begun taking him to watch the North London club as a means of staying in touch.
		Hornby, whose son is autistic, is a patron of the TreeHouse Trust, an educational charity for autistic children.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_1481568883/Hornby_Nick.html (449 words)

	Nick Hornby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English novelist and essayist who lives in Highbury, Islington in London.
		Hornby has also written essays on various aspects of popular culture, and in particular he has become known for his writing on pop music and mix tape enthusiasts.
		In 1993 Hornby’s son Danny was born with autism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nick_Hornby (864 words)

	Hexapedia - Nick Hornby (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nick Hornby (born 1957) is an English writer who lives in Highbury, in the north of London.
		Hornby built his name first with the memoir Fever Pitch (1992) about his lifelong support of Arsenal F.C., then followed it up with the best-selling novels High Fidelity (1995), About a Boy (1998) and How to be Good (2001).
		Hornby has also written essays on various aspects of popular culture, and in particular has become something of an authoritative literary voice for pop music and mix tape enthusiasts.
	www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Nick_Hornby (468 words)

	Between Pop and Literature: Nick Hornby
		Nick Hornby’s novel have recurrent themes: boys who grow up to become young men, football fans, obsessed rock fans, and last but not least disrupted family life in modern Britain.
		Hornby uses the discourse of single-parent families as a backdrop for his stories basically because the phenomenon is so widespread in his generation.
		Nick Hornby’s characters generally reveal themselves as someone "who has yet to come to terms with the demands of adult life".
	www.grzebeta.de /hornby.htm (2984 words)

	Nick Hornby CV at PFD
		Nick Hornby was born in 1957, is the author of three previous novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy and How to be Good, and two works of non-fiction, Fever Pitch and 31 Songs, and the editor of two anthologies, My Favourite Year and Speaking with the Angel.
		Funny, sad and deeply moving, Nick Hornby's A LONG WAY DOWN is a novel that asks some of the big questions: about life and death, strangers and friendship, love and pain, and whether a group of losers, and pizza, can really see you through a long, dark night of the soul.
		Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?
	www.pfd.co.uk /clients/hornbyn/b-aut.html (712 words)

	Amazon.com: How To Be Good: Books: Nick Hornby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hornby relies less than usual upon pop references which would be inappropriate for Katie's character anyway, although Homer Simpson is invoked a few times but he has created, without them, a very funny agon of liberalism.
		Hornby wrote it as if he had no experience whatsoever at being married, separated, a parent, etc. He gets it half-right and writes it mostly well, but it is still off the mark somehow.
		Nick Hornby is, without a doubt, one of the best novelists of the last 50 years.
	www.amazon.com /How-Be-Good-Nick-Hornby/dp/1573221937 (2448 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Weekend \| Interview: Simon Hattenstone meets Nick Hornby
		Hornby is not simply a football nut, he's a music nut and a literature nut.
		Hornby's books are full of men who can't, or who refuse to, grow up, absent fathers, struggling mothers and self-loathing characters who tell little lies to service their desires.
		Hornby says it was a kind of technical exercise: "I wanted to write a book that rocked, which was about something extremely downbeat, and I wanted to see if I could take these characters from the dark and to the light without being sentimental or unrealistic.
	www.guardian.co.uk /weekend/story/0,,1464888,00.html (3815 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Nick Hornby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The English writer Nick Hornby was born in 1957 and lives nowadays in Highbury, which is situated in the north of London.
		With these books, which especially appeal to men and all have become world wide best-sellers, he won fame and he can be seen as one of the most known modern English writers.
		Moreover, Nick Hornby is the author of the two anthologies[?] called My Favourite Year[?] and Speaking with the Angel[?].
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ni/Nick_Hornby (237 words)

	NPR : Nick Hornby on His New Novel, 'A Long Way Down'
		Nick Hornby on His New Novel, 'A Long Way Down'
		Nick Hornby's latest novel, A Long Way Down, follows a group of suicidal people who meet on the top of a building.
		Fresh Air from WHYY, June 15, 2005 ·; The latest novel from best-selling English author Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down, focuses on a group of suicidal people who accidentally meet atop a tall building -- and how that meeting changes their fates.
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	Nick Hornby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born on April 17, 1957 in Maidenhead, England, Hornby is the son of businessman Sir Derek Hornby.
		When the younger Hornby was 11 years old, his parents divorced and his father began taking him to watch the North London Premier League club Arsenal during their visits.
		In 1998, Hornby published About a Boy, a novel inspired in part by the children (especially the badly behaved adolescent girls) that he encountered as a teacher.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P224646 (753 words)

	Nick Hornby
		Nick Hornby was born in 1957, and is the author of: Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to Be Good.
		Two of Nick Hornby's previous books were number-one bestsellers in England: the 1995 novel High Fidelity, a critic's favorite on both sides of the Atlantic; and his first book, the memoir Fever Pitch.
		Nick Hornby lives in North London, within walking distance of his favorite football (soccer to us Yanks) team, the Arsenal.
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	Powells.com Interviews - Nick Hornby
		What makes A Long Way Down quintessentially a Nick Hornby novel is the way he draws humor out of that impromptu rooftop gathering without undermining the very real angst that brought his characters together in the first place.
		Hornby: I kept realizing, for various technical reasons, that it was going to have to be from the woman's point of view.
		Hornby: There's a lot less intensity about the games and about winning, but the main thing is that it's such a pleasure to go and watch them, which it never has been before.
	www.powells.com /authors/hornby.html (3949 words)

	This Space: Nick Hornby and the "joy" of reading
		Nick Hornby wastes over 2600 words over a misapprehension.
		Hornby evidently believes that reading is a good thing in itself and should not be discouraged.
		There's an obvious irony that in reading Nick Hornby's article and writing this to work out why it gave me such displeasure, I have eventually taken pleasure and so perhaps demonstrated the limits of his liberating call.
	this-space.blogspot.com /2006/08/nick-hornby-and-joy-of-reading.html (1100 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / Collection of essays highlights Hornby's love of reading, flair for writing
		One book Hornby couldn't make himself finish was Bob Woodward's "Bush at War." Hornby only read about a third of it before grumbling that "Woodward's tone was too matey and sympathetic for me." One passage did surprise him.
		Hornby takes to task those literary critics who give away plots of classics in their essays, under the assumption that everyone has already read them ("I know the only thing brainy people do with their lives is reread great works of fiction, but surely even.
		Hornby has other frustrations, all voiced with droll acuity, all stemming from the love of the well-written word.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/01/19/collection_of_essays_highlights_hornbys_love_of_reading_flair_for_writing?pg=full (859 words)

	Amazon.ca: Long Way Down: Books: Nick Hornby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hornby has said that his books begin with situations: a guy invents a child to meet single women (About a Boy), a married man gives ú80 to a homeless person (How to be Good).
		In Hornby's imagined world, even the foul-mouthed teenager is apologizing to the middle-aged woman for her language within a few days, and here Hornby's vision of unregulated humanity is diametrically opposed to that of William Golding (in Lord of the Flies).
		Hornby has done well for himself with the intimate, first-person reflections of the twenty- or thirty-something male (the voice in High Fidelity is particularly well sustained and truthful), but his female characters in this book are less convincing.
	www.amazon.ca /Long-Way-Down-Nick-Hornby/dp/1573223026 (2578 words)

	Nick Hornby
		Nick Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, England, in 1957.
		In 1999 Nick Hornby was awarded the E. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		Hornby's third book, About a Boy (1998), is a rather sadder book, with a considerably wider emotional range than either of its predecessors.
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	Amazon.ca: Fever Pitch: Books: Nick Hornby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hornby is the kind of fanatic who merely shrugs about the "tyranny" the sport exerts over his life--the mumbled excuses he must give at every missed christening or birthday party as a result of a schedule conflict.
		Hornby (as a real-life Arsenal fan) has a unique talent here in weaving a story out of autobiographical moments with a slight narrative where the glory and obsessive nature of football is eeked out on every page.
		Hornby was able to shove in a little bit of angst and childhood problems, but it is not nearly significant enough to keep the reader interested.
	www.amazon.ca /Fever-Pitch-Nick-Hornby/dp/1573226882 (2454 words)

	A Long Way Down - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Long Way Down is a novel written by British author Nick Hornby, published in 2005.
		It is a dark comedy, playing off the themes of suicide, angst, depression and promiscuity.
		As with several of Hornby's earlier books, it seems likely that A Long Way Down will be adapted for the screen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Long_Way_Down (432 words)

	Literary alchemy - The Washington Times: Entertainment - April 15, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nick Hornby, the British novelist, writes a lot like this too: chockablock with proper names and cultural trivia.
		Hornby's 1992 memoir of the same name, was about the author's analogous zeal for the London soccer team Arsenal.
		Hornby was born outside of London in 1957, soon enough to make him a product of the media age.
	washingtontimes.com /entertainment/20050414-090346-5244r.htm (805 words)

	Powell's Books: Nick Hornby Songbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Midway through Songbook, Nick Hornby riffs on the topic of what song should be played at his funeral.
		In High Fidelity, Hornby's narrator compared making a compilation tape to letter writing: "There's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again," Rob admits.
		Meanwhile, Hornby's loyalty to the three-and-a-half minute pop structure bears no corresponding responsibility to defend songs he once had use for.
	www.powells.com /features/hornby_songbook.html (929 words)

	Amazon.de: A Long Way Down.: English Books: Nick Hornby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hornby funnels the perceptive music and cultural references he is known for through the character of JJ, but he also expands far beyond his usual territory, exploring the changes in perspective that can suddenly make a life seem worth living and adroitly shifting the tone from sad to happy and back again.
		Hornby respects that such hardships are highly subjective, that they often have no easy solutions, but need step-by-step changes to make living with them bearable.
		Hier zeigt Hornby keinen schlechten Geschmack, sondern eine typisch englische Verhaltensweise.
	www.amazon.de /Long-Way-Down-Nick-Hornby/dp/0141025778 (1926 words)

	Nick Hornby - MedPort-Lexikon
		Hornby studierte in Cambridge und arbeitete als Lehrer, ehe er sich nach dem Erfolg von "Fever Pitch" in England (1992) ganz dem Schreiben widmen konnte.
		Er ist bekennender Anhänger des Arsenal F.C. In seinen Werken, scheint es einen manchmal unterschweligen Bezug zu Behinderungen zu geben, was auch daran liegen kann, daß Hornbys Sohn Danny geistig behindert ist.
		Hornby ist Gründungsmitglied von TreeHouse, einer in England beheimateten Organisation, die sich für eine bessere schulische Betreuung von authistischen Kindern einsetzt.
	www.medport.de /lexikon/index.php/Nick_Hornby (165 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: 31 Songs: Books: Nick Hornby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hornby is an intelligent writer and this is a very enjoyable book.
		I've heard that Nick Hornby is a very good author, and this was the first book of his that I read.
		Hornby talks about his son and his disability and that is a very moving section.
	www.amazon.co.uk /31-Songs-Nick-Hornby/dp/0141013400 (1612 words)

	"The Polysyllabic Spree" by Nick Hornby - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nick Hornby's new collection of his essays from the Believer, the literary magazine edited by Heidi Julavits, is named in homage to the rock collective the Polyphonic Spree, who dress in choir robes and perform feel-good, orchestral pop.
		When he writes that the Believer staff's promise of a night on the town in New York resulted in their dragging him to a two-and-a-half-hour reading of the nominees for the National Book Critics Circle, you mourn for Hornby and his evening.
		Where it deserves credit for bucking a trend that is harming contemporary criticism isn't in its attitude toward negative reviews but in the freedom it has given Hornby for his column.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2004/12/09/hornby/index_np.html (420 words)

	NICK HORNBY - for news on Nick Hornby Click Here
		Bestselling authors Nick Hornby and Salman Rushdie are among those battling for this year's Whitbread prize.
		Authors JK Rowling, Nick Hornby and Stephen King are shortlisted for major new US literary awards, the Quills.
		Film rights to Nick Hornby's latest novel A Long Way Down are sold before it is published, reports say.
	www.newsbyname.co.uk /N/Nick-Hornby.php (177 words)

	Where Nick Hornby went wrong. - By Stephen Metcalf - Slate Magazine
		Nick Hornby has built his admirable career, as comedian of manners for the album rock era, out of a single, hedgehoglike insight: The majority of people touched by rock music weren't makers of rock music.
		And yet Hornby's evocations of despair are not acute enough to prevent the reader from dream-casting the novel as he goes or to banish images of Hugh Grant and Keira Knightley disporting sassily as Martin and Jess … and maybe the ever-tasteful Brenda Blethyn as Maureen?
		When Hornby gives up the pretense to a larger demographic canvas and lets himself be Hornby, the kill is as clean as ever.
	www.slate.com /id/2121175 (1641 words)

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