Author Matthew Quick Comes Home
The 1992 graduate of Collingswood High School returned to his alma mater to talk about the literary life.
Philly fans love their Iggles, showing fierce loyalty to their hometown heroes. Matthew Quick fans apparently feel the same way about the local boy made good. About 300 people filled the lower level of the Collingswood High School auditorium Monday evening to welcome home Quick, a 1992 graduate of the school, who grew up in neighboring Oaklyn. Many of them were teenagers clutching copies of Quick's newest release, the young-adult novel Boy 21. (A video trailer for the book stars Collingswood senior Chris Michael. Click on the link to the right to view the trailer.) But, the question on a fair number of people's minds was: What's Bradley Cooper really like in person? Quick's first novel, The Siliver Linings Playbook, published in 2008, …
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