Matthew Quick
Matthew Quick | |
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| Quick at the 2022 Texas Book Festival. Quick at the 2022 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | October 23, 1973 Camden, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | La Salle University, Goddard College, Collingswood High School |
| Genre | Adult novels, Young-adult novels |
| Notable works | The Silver Linings Playbook |
| Spouse | Alicia Bessette |
| Website | |
| matthewquickwriter | |
Matthew Quick (born October 23, 1973) is an American writer of adult and young adult fiction. His 2008 debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted as a 2012 movie of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.[1][2]
Quick was a finalist for a 2009 PEN/Hemingway Award, and his work has been translated into several languages.[3] In 2012, his young-adult novel, Boy 21, was reviewed favorably by The New York Times.[4]
Quick was a finalist for the TIME 100 most influential people of 2013.[5]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Quick grew up in Oaklyn, New Jersey and graduated from Collingswood High School. He has a degree in English literature and secondary education from La Salle University and an MFA from Goddard College. Quick taught high school literature in southern New Jersey for several years, before leaving his job as a tenured English teacher in Haddonfield, New Jersey to write his first novel.[6][7] Quick lived in Massachusetts for several years; he and his wife, novelist and pianist Alicia Bessette, now live on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.[8] He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from La Salle in 2013.
Works
[edit | edit source]Source: Fiction Database[9]
- The Silver Linings Playbook (2008) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 910977730
- Sorta Like a Rockstar (2010) – YA Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 858312107
- Boy21 (2012) – YA Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 885301812
- Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (2013) – YA
- The Good Luck of Right Now (2014)
- Love May Fail (2015) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 906023510
- Every Exquisite Thing (2016) – YA
- The Reason You're Alive (2017)
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Film adaptations
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External links
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- Matthew Quick at Library of Congress, with 5 library catalog records
- Review, The Good Luck of Right Now
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- American young adult novelists
- Collingswood High School alumni
- Goddard College alumni
- La Salle University alumni
- People from Collingswood, New Jersey
- Writers from Camden, New Jersey
- American male novelists
- People from Oaklyn, New Jersey
- 21st-century American male writers
- Novelists from New Jersey