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.
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. 
