He lives in Highbury, North London with his family.

He was nominated for the Oscar for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for both An Education and Brooklyn. His TV series State of the Union won three Emmys and was published as a book in 2019, a second series will broadcast in 2021. He wrote the screenplay for the film Fever Pitch, Lynn Barber’s An Education, Cheryl Strayed's Wild, Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn and the the TV adaptation of Nina Stibbe’s Love, Nina. The film is based on the 1995 British novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, with the setting moved. The high point of traditional mixtape culture was arguably the publication of Nick Hornbys novel High Fidelity in 1995. With John Cusack as compulsive list-maker and bumbling romantic Rob Gordon, the movie not only grossed almost 48 million worldwide but introduced audiences to a rising star. In 1999 he was given the EM Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. An adaptation of Nick Hornbys novel High Fidelity. High Fidelity (2000) Hornby’s first novel, High Fidelity (1995), reset the bar with its 2000 movie adaptation claiming spot 48 on the Rotten Tomato Rom-Com ranking. At the beginning of 'High Fidelity,' the smart, if stunted, record-shop owner and dedicated music snob. He is the author of eight novels, High Fidelity (1995), About A Boy, (1998) How To Be Good (2001) , A Long Way Down (2005) (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award), Slam (2007), Juliet Naked (2009) and Funny Girl (2014) and Just Like You (2020) eight works of non-fiction , including, Fever Pitch (1997) (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award), 31 Songs (2003) (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (2004), Shakespeare Wrote for Money (2008) and Stuff I’ve Been Reading (2015), collected from the monthly column of the same name that Nick Hornby writes in The Believer magazine. Nick Hornbys 'High Fidelity' first hit bookstore shelves in 1995.

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