Matthew Quick

Matthew Quick (2013)

Matthew Quick (born October 23, 1973 in Oaklyn (New Jersey) , United States ) is an American author .

Life

Quick grew up in Oaklyn ( New Jersey ) and attended in Collingswood (New Jersey), the High School . At the La Salle University in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania he put a Bachelor exams into English literature and then went to Goddard College in Plainfield ( Vermont ). There he graduated with a Master of Fine Art (MFA).

Quick became a teacher at Haddonfield , New Jersey. To write his first novel, he left the school service and moved to the city of his school days. After that, he lived with his wife, pianist and author Alicia Bessette , in Holden , Massachusetts , before the couple on the Outer Banks on the coast of the Atlantic in North Carolina settled.

Quick's first novel, The Silver Linings Playbook , was filmed in the US in 2012. The script was written by Quick, who received two awards from critical associations for it. The book was published in German in 2013.

Prizes and awards

• 2009: Finalist at the PEN / Hemingway Award for The Silver Linings Playbook .
• 2012: Chicago Film Critics Association Award / Best Adapted Screenplay for The Silver Linings Playbook .
• 2012: National Board of Review Award / Best Adapted Screenplay for The Silver Linings Playbook .
• 2013: ALA Best Book for Young Adults for the Roman Boy 21 .

Publications

• The Silver Linings Playbook . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York City, USA 2008, ISBN 978-0-374-26426-0 .
  • German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann: Silver Linings . Kindler, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-463-40081-5 .
• Sorta like a rock star . Little, Brown and Co., New York City, USA 2010, ISBN 978-0-316-04352-6 .
• Boy 21 . Little, Brown and Co., New York City, USA 2012, ISBN 978-0-316-12797-4 .
  • German: Goodbye Bellmont . dtv, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-423-76122-2 .
• Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock , a Novel. Little, Brown and Co., New York City, USA 2013, ISBN 978-0-316-22133-7 .
  • German: Happy Birthday, Leonard Peacock . dtv, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-423-74006-7 .
• The Good Luck of Right Now , a Novel. Harper, New York City, USA 2014, ISBN 978-0-062285539 .
  • German: The thing with luck . Kindler, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-463-40084-6 .
• Love May Fail . Harper, New York City 2015, ISBN 978-0-062285560 .
• Every Exquisite Thing . Little, Brown and Co., New York City, USA 2016.
• The Reason You're Alive . Harper, New York City, USA 2017.
  • German: decency . HarperCollins, Hamburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-95967-135-4 .

filming

• The Silver Linings Playbook with Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in the lead, 2012.

Web links

• Author's website (en.)
• Website of the author's wife (en.)
• Matthew Quick - Author Page of HarperCollins Germany