Galt Niederhoffer

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Galt Niederhoffer born 1975 is an American movie producer and novelist Her movie credits as a producer include Prozac Nation 2001 Lonesome Jim 2005 The Baxter 2005 and Grace Is Gone 2006 She is one of the principals at Plum Pictures Her autobiographical novel A Taxonomy of Barnacles 2005 about rivalry among six sisters has been described as zany and witty by some critics silly and contrived by others The books surprise ending was mirrored in real life when her father had a seventh child a son a year after the book came out Her second novel The Romantics about college chums who get together again six years after graduation to compare their meager progress towards lifes important goals and rekindle previous rivalries was published in 2008 by St Martins Press A motion picture with Katie Holmes Adam Brody Malin Akerman Elijah Wood Josh Duhamel and Anna Paquin is set to release on September 10 2010 She lives in New York City with her husband James Strouse daughter Magnolia and son Grover She is the daughter of hedge fund manager Victor Niederhoffer and Gail Niederhoffer She attended The Chapin School Milton Academy and Harvard University Description above from the Wikipedia article Galt Niederhoffer licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia