Peter Hedges

PETER HEDGES is a novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. He wrote both the novel and the screenplay What's Eating Gilbert Grape , and is the writer-director of Pieces of April starring Katie Holmes and Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carrell. His screenplay for About a Boy was nominated for an Academy Award. Hedges lives with his wife and children in Brooklyn, New York.

PETER HEDGES is a novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. He wrote both the novel and the screenplay What's Eating Gilbert Grape , and is the writer-director of Pieces of April starring Katie Holmes and Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carrell. His screenplay for About a Boy was nominated for an Academy Award. Hedges lives with his wife and children in Brooklyn, New York. See less