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Matthew Quick

Matthew Quick (aka Q) is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings PlaybookThe Good Luck of Right Now, and four young adult novels, Sorta Like a Rock StarBoy21Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, and Every Exquisite Thing. His work has been translated into thirty languages, and has received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention. The Weinstein Company and David O. Russell adapted The Silver Linings Playbook into an Academy Award winning film. Q lives in North Carolina with his wife, novelist/pianist Alicia Besette.

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NOVL - Headshot photo of Matthew Quick

Matthew Quick (aka Q) is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings PlaybookThe Good Luck of Right Now, and four young adult novels, Sorta Like a Rock StarBoy21Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, and Every Exquisite Thing. His work has been translated into thirty languages, and has received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention. The Weinstein Company and David O. Russell adapted The Silver Linings Playbook into an Academy Award winning film. Q lives in North Carolina with his wife, novelist/pianist Alicia Besette.

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