It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1992 and was reprinted with a new cover and made available as part of the 2005–06 Arsenal F.C. As well as recounting Arsenal's highs and lows, Hornby talks about other football clubs that play in London, and his interest in the contrasting surroundings of Cambridge United and Cambridge City, whose matches he attends while at university.įever Pitch sold over a million copies in the United Kingdom.

Each chapter is about a football match that he remembers watching, most but not all at Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, and how it related to the events that were going on with his life. It consists of several chapters in chronological order, from the time the author first became a football fan as a child until his early thirties. It tells the story of the author's relationship with football, and with Arsenal Football Club in particular. The first edition was subtitled 'A Fan's Life', but later paperback editions were not.įever Pitch, first published in 1992, is a memoir and Hornby's second book. The book is the basis for two films: Fever Pitch (1997, UK) and Fever Pitch (2005, U.S.).

Hornby lives in North London.Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life is a 1992 autobiographical essay by British author Nick Hornby. That same September, the author published his latest novel, Juliet, Naked to wide acclaim. A film written by Hornby, An Education – shown at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim – was the lead movie at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival and distributed by Sony that fall. Among his many other honors and awards, four of his titles have been named New York Times Notable Books. Forster Award and the winner of the 2003 Orange Word International Writers’ London Award. He is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. A film written by Hornby, An Education – shown at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim – was the lead movie at the 200 Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch.

Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch.

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