Matthew Quick | |
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 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 |
| 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]
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.
Source: Fiction Database[9]
