BOOK REVIEW
ABOUT A BOY
Who is Nick Hornby?
Nick Hornby was born in 1957 in Surrey, England and graduated in English Literature at Cambridge University.Later, he taught English to foreigners and worked as a freelance journalist for several important newspapers.
From childhood, he was a keen fan of the Arsenal football
team and this probably inspired his first well-known book, Fever Pitch (1992). Next came High Fidelity (1995), closely followed by About a Boy(1998). All of these books have been adapted for the cinema. He has also written two other novels along with several works of non-fiction.
Hornby now lives in London and much of his writing isset there. He is married and has a son, who was diagnosed with autism when he was 2 years old.With his wife, he set up Treehouse, a special school to help such children.