Biography
Jeff Arch is an American screenwriter. Born in December 1954 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Harrisburg Academy in 1972 and studied theatre and film production at Emerson College in Boston from 1972 to 1976.
Arch wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle (1993), directed by Nora Ephron and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The film earned him nominations for an Academy Award, Writers Guild of America Award and BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. His other screen credits include the Disney adventure Iron Will (1994).
Arch has also written for television and stage, including work on a musical adaptation of Sleepless in Seattle, and published his first novel, Attachments, in 2022.
