![]() ![]() It was Maidenhead where Nick Hornby learned to write and it is where his passion for literature arose. Hornby's solution to this was taking "solace in the public library, throwing himself at first into the Jennings football series and Richmal Crompton's Just William stories" as he recalls in an interview in 2009. ![]() Hornby's mother had a day job, this meant that much of his childhood Hornby was alone. As a boy, Derick Hornby was a "bright lad who benefited from a government scheme to send able boys from poor homes to public school". His father, Sir Derek, was a self-made man who ended up as chairman of Rank Xerox. Shortly after birth, Hornby's family moved to the riverside town of Maidenhead in Berkshire because of his father, Sir Derick Hornby's, work. Nick Hornby was born on 17 April 1957 in the town of Red Hill, Surrey. Who would have thought the square mile around Arsenal's stadium could be a suitable surrogate for the whole wide world?' 'Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury. ![]()
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