Peter Hedges

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Peter Hedges born July 6 1962 is an American novelist screenwriter and film director Hedges grew up in West Des Moines Iowa and attended Valley High School where he was involved in the theater department including the improv group and the mime troupe The Bakers Dozen He later went to the North Carolina School of the Arts His novel Whats Eating Gilbert Grape was adapted into a critically acclaimed movie of the same title which launched his film career In 2002 he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for About a Boy In the same year he wrote and directed Pieces of April starring Katie Holmes which he dedicated to his mother In 2007 he cowrote and directed Dan in Real Life In 2009 he was signed to write and direct The Odd Life of Timothy Green a film conceived by Ahmet Zappa to be produced by Zappa and Scott Sanders His latest novel The Heights was published March 4 2010 by Dutton Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Hedges licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia