Matthew Quick Explained

Birth Date:23 October 1973
Birth Place:Camden, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:La Salle University, Goddard College, Collingswood High School
Genre:Adult novels, Young-adult novels
Notableworks:The Silver Linings Playbook
Spouse:Alicia Bessette

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]

Personal life

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.

Works

Source: Fiction Database[9]

Film adaptations

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The New York Times Bestseller List . New York Times . 2013-03-14 . 2015-11-17.
  2. Web site: David O. Russell to Direct The Silver Linings Playbook | /Film . Slashfilm.com . 2009-03-28 . 2014-02-10.
  3. Web site: PEN/Hemingway Award and other Hemingway Forums. July 11, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120719073503/http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/The-Ernest-Hemingway-Collection/Hemingway-News/PEN-Hemingway-Awards-and-other-Hemingway-Forums.aspx . July 19, 2012 .
  4. News: The Finer Points of the Game . The New York Times, Matt de la Peña, March 9, 2012 . 2012-03-09.
  5. News: Matthew Quick | The 2013 TIME 100 Poll | TIME.com . Time100.time.com . 2013-03-22 . 2014-02-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131231165115/http://time100.time.com/2013/03/28/time-100-poll/slide/matthew-quick/ . 2013-12-31 . dead .
  6. Web site: Matthew Quick Bio.
  7. Web site: Skoufalos . Matt . 'Silver Linings Playbook' Scribe Reflects on Roots - Entertainment - Collingswood, NJ Patch . Collingswood.patch.com . 2013-02-24 . 2014-02-10.
  8. Web site: Bio | Alicia Bessette . 2014-06-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140109171111/http://aliciabessettepiano.com/front-page/bio/ . 2014-01-09 . dead .
  9. Web site: Matthew Quick Book List . FictionDB . 2014-02-10.