MATTHEW QUICK (aka Q) is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook and three young adult novels, Sorta Like a Rock Star, Boy21, and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages; has received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention; and was called “beautiful… first-rate” by the New York Times Book Review. The Weinstein Company and David O. Russell adapted The Silver Linings Playbook into an Academy Award–winning film. Q lives in Massachusetts with his wife, novelist/pianist Alicia Bessette. His website is www.matthewquickwriter.com.