Matthew Quick

{{Short description|American author}} {{for|the artist|Matthew Quick (artist)}} {{Infobox writer  | image = Matthew Quick 2022 Texas Book Festival.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Quick at the 2022 Texas Book Festival. | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|10|23}} | birth_place = Camden, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer | language = | nationality = American | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = La Salle University, Goddard College, Collingswood High School | period = | genre = Adult novels, Young-adult novels | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''The Silver Linings Playbook'' | spouse = Alicia Bessette | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|matthewquickwriter.com}} | portaldisp = }}

'''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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2013-03-17/e-book-fiction/list.html |title=The New York Times Bestseller List |work=New York Times |date=2013-03-14 |accessdate=2015-11-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slashfilm.com/david-o-russell-to-direct-the-silver-linings-playbook/ |title=David O. Russell to Direct The Silver Linings Playbook | /Film |publisher=Slashfilm.com |date=2009-03-28 |accessdate=2014-02-10}}</ref>

Quick was a finalist for a 2009 PEN/Hemingway Award, and his work has been translated into several languages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/The-Ernest-Hemingway-Collection/Hemingway-News/PEN-Hemingway-Awards-and-other-Hemingway-Forums.aspx |accessdate=July 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=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 |archivedate=July 19, 2012 |title=PEN/Hemingway Award and other Hemingway Forums}}</ref> In 2012, his young-adult novel, ''Boy 21'', was reviewed favorably by ''The New York Times''.<ref name="nyt01">{{cite news | title = The Finer Points of the Game | publisher = The New York Times, Matt de la Peña, March 9, 2012 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/basketball-novels-by-paul-volponi-and-matthew-quick.html | date=2012-03-09}}</ref>

Quick was a finalist for the TIME 100 most influential people of 2013.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://time100.time.com/2013/03/28/time-100-poll/slide/matthew-quick/ |title=Matthew Quick | The 2013 TIME 100 Poll |publisher=Time |date=2013-03-22 |access-date=2014-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231165115/http://time100.time.com/2013/03/28/time-100-poll/slide/matthew-quick/ |archive-date=2013-12-31 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://matthewquickwriter.com/bio/ |title=Matthew Quick Bio}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Skoufalos |first=Matt |url=http://collingswood.patch.com/articles/checking-in-with-silver-linings-playbook-scribe-matthew-quick |title='Silver Linings Playbook' Scribe Reflects on Roots - Entertainment - Collingswood, NJ Patch |publisher=Collingswood.patch.com |date=2013-02-24 |accessdate=2014-02-10}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://aliciabessettepiano.com/front-page/bio/ |title=Bio | Alicia Bessette |access-date=2014-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109171111/http://aliciabessettepiano.com/front-page/bio/ |archive-date=2014-01-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from La Salle in 2013.

== Works == Source: Fiction Database<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fictiondb.com/author/matthew-quick~61515.htm |title=Matthew Quick Book List |publisher=FictionDB |date= |accessdate=2014-02-10}}</ref>

*''The Silver Linings Playbook'' (2008) {{ISBN|9781447291480}}, {{OCLC|910977730}} *''Sorta Like a Rockstar'' (2010) – YA {{ISBN|9781472212825}}, {{OCLC|858312107}} *''Boy21'' (2012) – YA {{ISBN|9781472212900}}, {{OCLC|885301812}} *''Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock'' (2013) – YA *''The Good Luck of Right Now'' (2014) *''Love May Fail'' (2015) {{ISBN|9780062420152}}, {{OCLC|906023510}} *''Every Exquisite Thing'' (2016) – YA *''The Reason You're Alive'' (2017) *''We Are the Light'' (2022) {{ISBN|9781668005422}}

== Film adaptations ==

*''Silver Linings Playbook (2012)'' *''All Together Now (2020)''

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category|Matthew Quick}} * {{official website }} * {{LCAuth|n2008022586|Matthew Quick|5|}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140222141104/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/review-the-good-luck-of-right-now-by-matthew-quick Review, ''The Good Luck of Right Now''] {{Library resources box|by=yes|online books=no|viaf=4400986|lccn=no2017038542}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Quick, Matthew}} Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century American novelists Category:American writers of young adult novels Category:Collingswood High School alumni Category:Goddard College alumni Category:La Salle University alumni Category:People from Collingswood, New Jersey Category:Writers from Camden, New Jersey Category:American male novelists Category:People from Oaklyn, New Jersey Category:21st-century American male writers Category:Novelists from New Jersey