Biography
Peter Hedges is an American novelist, screenwriter and film director. Born on 6 July 1962 in West Des Moines, Iowa, he studied drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
His debut novel, What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1991), was adapted into a 1993 film for which he wrote the screenplay. In 2002 he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for About a Boy. He wrote and directed the films Pieces of April (2003), Dan in Real Life (2007), The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) and Ben Is Back (2018).
