British · b. 1957
Nick Hornby made his name writing about music and football, then turned those obsessions into novels. "High Fidelity" (1995), "About a Boy" (1998), and "How to Be Good" (2001) brought his voice to fiction—self-deprecating, compulsively listing, funny about failure. Hornby founded the charity Ministry of Stories and has written screenplays including "Brooklyn." His novels capture a certain kind of male arrested development with sympathy and precision.