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) Gene Nation to free the members of Generation X. In the ensuing fight, X-Man siphons off Fever Pitch's energy, seemingly killing him. However he resurfaced in "Uncanny X-Men" #402 in Berlin. The criminal is fighting Abyss to try to capture him and sell him to researchers who wanted to dissect him. The battle is interrupted by Avalanche, Blob, and Surge of the X-Corps, a paramilitary facility run by the former X-Men Banshee's. This group takes the two men prisoner. Once inside Banshee's facility, Fever Pitch is mind-controlled by the imprisoned Martinique Jason into serving the X-Corps...or so it seems. When