Nick Hornby, Esq

Career: author, screenwriter and freelance journalist; former teacher; co-fndr TreeHouse (nat educnl charity for children with autism), co-fndr Miny of Stories (literacy centre in E London); E M Forster Award American Acad of Arts and Letters 1999, W H Smith Award for Fiction 2002, Writers' Writer Award Orange Word Int Writers Festival 2003; FRSL

Books and Publications: Novels High Fidelity (1995, film adaptation 2000), About a Boy (1998, film adaptation 2002), How to be Good (2001), A Long Way Down (2005, shortlisted Whitbread Novel of the Year 2005), Slam (2007), Juliet, Naked (2009); Non-Fiction Fever Pitch (1992, film adaptations 1997 and 2005), 31 Songs (2003), The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (2006); Anthologies My Favourite Year (ed, 1993), Speaking with the Angel (ed, 2000); Screenplays Fever Pitch (1997), An Education (2009, nominated for BAFTA and Acad Award)