Nick Hornby was born in 1957 and is the author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About A Boy, How To Be Good, 31 Songs and A Long Way Down. He also edited the collection of short stories, Speaking With The Angel, and is the pop music critic for the New Yorker. In 1999, Hornby was awarded the E.M.Forster award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Hornby is a graduate of Cambridge University and was a teacher and reviewer before starting to write full time. Before turning his attention to fiction, Hornby was a regular contributor to Esquire, the London Sunday Times, and The Independent. He has also written for GQ, Elle, Time, The New Republic, Vogue and Premiere.

His first book, a series of critical essays on American novelists, was published in 1992. Fever Pitch, his memoir of a life devoted to Arsenal Football Club, was published in 1992. It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and was adapted as both a play and a film, the latter starring Colin Firth.

His fiction continues to explore male obsessions, crises and weaknesses. His first novel, High Fidelity (1995), is the story of an obsessive record collector and list-maker and was adapted as a film in 2000 starring John Cusack. His second novel, About A Boy (1998), focuses on the growing relationship between thirty-something Will Freeman and Marcus, a 12-year-old boy. A film version, starring Hugh Grant, premiered in 2002. His novel, How To Be Good (2001), explores contemporary morals, marriage and parenthood. It won the WH Smith Award for Fiction in 2002. His most recent books are 31 Songs (2003), which celebrates 31 songs of great significance to the author and A Long Way Down (2005), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award.

Nick Hornby lives in North London, within cheering distance of his favorite football/soccer team, Arsenal.