Matthew Quick

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. 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. == Works ==

Source: Fiction Database • The Silver Linings Playbook (2008) , • Sorta Like a Rockstar (2010) – YA , • Boy21 (2012) – YA , • Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (2013) – YA • The Good Luck of Right Now (2014) • Love May Fail (2015) , • Every Exquisite Thing (2016) – YA • ''The Reason You're Alive'' (2017) • We Are the Light (2022) == Film adaptations ==

• Silver Linings Playbook (2012) • All Together Now (2020) ==References==