“Pieces of April' was going to be a 3 to 7 million dollar film and we had three entities, two studios, and one wealthy man and they all backed out. It was quite a blow.”

American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, film director and film producer

Peter Hedges is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He is known for moving across several forms of storytelling, from fiction and stage work to film. His career spans writing and filmmaking, with credits in novels, plays, screenplays, directing, and producing. That range is what most clearly defines his public profile, even when the available record gives only the broad outline of his work.