Matthew Quick is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on October 23, 1973 in New Jersey, United States. For her performance in Silver Linings Playbook’s film adaptation, Actress Jennifer Lawrence won an Academy Award for her performance in the film adaptation of Silver Linings Playbook. was awarded an Academy Award.
Quick was finalist for a 2009 PEN/Hemingway Award, and his work has been translated into several languages. In 2012, his young-adult novel, Boy 21, was reviewed favorably by The New York Times.
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 while living in Collingswood. 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. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from La Salle in 2013.
He was married to Alicia Bessette, a novelist and musician.
He was named as a finalist on the TIME 100 Most Influential Persons List in 2013.
Matthew Quick (born October 23, 1973) is an American writer of adult and young adult fiction. His debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted as a movie of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, and Chris Tucker.
