February 21, 2024
The Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Writers and Scholars Program presents Nick Hornby, an award-winning author and Oscar®-nominated screenwriter.
The Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Writers and Scholars Program presents Nick Hornby, an award-winning author and Oscar®-nominated screenwriter, who visits Dickinson on February 20-21, 2024, for the Stellfox Residency. During his two days here, Hornby will meet with students, attend classes, and engage with the campus community. At 7 PM on Wed., February 21, in the Allison Great Hall, Hornby will give a public reading and receive the Stellfox Prize from President John E. Jones III '77, P'11. All are then invited to join us for a book signing at 8 p.m. in the Allison Community Room.
Hornby is a prize-winning British novelist, essayist, memoirist and screenwriter. As a prose writer he's best known for Fever Pitch (later made into a movie in the U.K. starring Colin Firth, and then into a movie in the U.S. starring Jimmy Fallon), High Fidelity (later a movie starring John Cusack, and then a 2020 Hulu series starring Zoe Kravitz), and About a Boy (later a movie starring Hugh Grant). As a screenwriter he's best known for his adaptations of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and his 2015 Oscar-nominated screenplay of Brooklyn. For more information on Nick Hornby go to: https://www.lyceumagency.com/speakers/nick-hornby/
Further information
- Location: Allison Great Hall
- Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Cost: $0.00