Claim: How Starbucks Saved My Life (published on September 12, 2007) has been optioned by Tom Hanks for a film; filmmaker Gus Van Sant has also been in talks to direct and Gill is the author of the 1987 fiction book The Boozer Challenge.
Evidence: United States Gill is the son of famed The New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, and the brother of Charles Gill, author of the 1987 fiction book The Boozer Challenge.