Fever Pitch 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. As well as recounting Arsenal's highs and lows, Hornby talks about other football clubs that played in London. "Fever Pitch" sold over a million copies in the United Kingdom. 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. membership pack as part of the "Final Salute" to
Nick Hornby a screenplay there are all these hurdles that seem to have some kind of objectivity to them. The screenplay has to work and I love that.” In 2009, Hornby adapted an autobiographical memoir by the journalist Lynn Barber for the screen as "An Education", a feature film starring Peter Sarsgaard and Carey Mulligan. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and for two BAFTAs for writing the screenplay. In 2014, Hornby adapted another autobiographical memoir, Cheryl Strayed's "". "Wild", which starred Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern, was nominated for Best Actress for Witherspoon and Best Supporting