马修·奎克

马修·奎克（英语：Matthew Quick，1973年—）是一名美国小说作家。他的第一部小说作品《派特的幸福剧本》变成纽约时报畅销书，而且被改编为一部由布莱德利·库珀与詹妮弗·劳伦斯主演的同名电影。

奎克是2009年PEN/Hemingway奖的最终人选之一。他的作品被翻译为了数种语言。2012年，他的小说《男孩21》（英语：Boy 21），被纽约时报给予积极的评价。

个人生活

奎克在新泽西州柯林斯伍德成长，并曾经是一位英语教师。他现在与他的妻子、小说家Alicia Bessette居住在马萨诸萨州中部。

作品

来源：Fiction Database

《派特的幸福剧本》（The Silver Linings Playbook，2008年）

《有点儿像个摇滚明星》（Sorta Like a Rockstar，2010年）

《男孩21》（Boy21，2012年）

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.

Quick was a 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 was a finalist for the TIME 100 most influential people of 2013.

Personal life

Quick grew up in Oaklyn, New Jersey, and graduated from Collingswood High School. In his memoir, Dad, Love, Me; he describes a volatile relationship with his father. 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, later moved to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and now live in Beaufort, South Carolina. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from La Salle in 2013.

Works

Source: Fiction Database

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

Dad, Love, Me (2026) - Memoir

Film adaptations

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

All Together Now (2020)