Nick Hornby Hornby, the chairman of London and Continental Railways, and Margaret Audrey, Lady Hornby ("née" Withers). He was brought up in Maidenhead, and educated at Maidenhead Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read English. His parents divorced when he was eleven. Hornby published his first book in 1992, a collection of essays about American Writers such as Tobias Wolff and Ann Beattie, titled "Contemporary American Fiction". Hornby's second book, "Fever Pitch", also published in 1992, is an autobiographical story detailing his fanatical support for Arsenal Football Club. As a result, Hornby received the William Hill Sports Book of the
Fever Pitch (comics) Skids and Scalphunter inside the floating Sphinx. Fever Pitch is one of the many mutants that revolts against Sentinel Squad O*N*E during Domino and Shatterstar's successful attempt to release the mutants "relocated" at the Xavier Institute. Many of the mutants escape to further battles and confrontations. Fever Pitch was captured by the Purifiers and injected with a new form of the Legacy Virus. He was then pushed into a large crowd of anti-mutant protesters, where the Purifiers intended for him to lose control of his powers and make martyrs of the protesters. X-23 picked up the scent of his fire