Fever Pitch Fever Pitch Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life is a 1992 autobiographical essay by British author Nick Hornby. The book is the basis for two films: "Fever Pitch" (1997, UK) and "Fever Pitch" (2005, U.S.). The first edition was subtitled "A Fan's Life", but later paperback editions were not. "Fever Pitch", first published in 1992, is Hornby's first novel. It tells the story of the author's relationship with football and with Arsenal Football Club, in particular. It consists of several chapters in chronological order, from the time the author first became a football fan as a child until his early thirties.
Nick Hornby of depression in 2012 on the BBC Radio 4 broadcast of "Fever Pitched: Twenty Years On". Hornby's most recent novel, "Funny Girl", about a Sixties beauty queen determined to make her mark upon television comedy, was released in late 2014. Hornby has also developed a career as a screenwriter, and has said that he enjoys the challenge of working in film as opposed to writing novels. In his BAFTA & BFI Screenwriters' Lecture he said, “once you get to a certain point in your novelistic career, unless you screw up very badly the book is going to come out. With