Nicholas Pileggi - Wikipedia
Nicholas Pileggi (/ pɪˈlɛdʒi /, Italian: [piˈleddʒi]; born February 22, 1933) is an American author and screenwriter. He wrote the 1985 non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas, its 1990 film adaptation, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Nicholas Pileggi - IMDb
Nicholas Pileggi. Writer: Goodfellas. Nicholas Pileggi was born and raised in New York, the son of a shoe store owner. He worked as a journalist for Associated Press in the 1950s where he specialized in crime reporting.
Wiseguy (book) - Wikipedia
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family is a 1985 non-fiction book by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi that chronicles the life of Henry Hill, a Mafia associate turned informant. The book is the basis for the 1990 Oscar –winning film Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese .
Goodfellas - Wikipedia
Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical gangster film [5] directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy.
The real-life Wiseguy behind Scorsese's GoodFellas - BBC
Jan 20, 2017 · I spoke to Italian-American author Nicholas Pileggi, who wrote Wiseguy, the bestseller which inspired GoodFellas. Scorsese read Pileggi’s book, and loved it, and invited Pileggi to co-write the...
From shoe-leather reporter to Mob movie screenwriter, Nick Pileggi ...
Mar 11, 2020 · Author and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi is enjoying a couple of major career milestones this year. Two groundbreaking Mob movies he wrote with director Martin Scorsese — Goodfellas and Casino — are undergoing anniversaries.
For One 'Wiseguy,' A Permanent Place In Mobster Lore : NPR
Sep 27, 2011 · Wiseguy author Nicholas Pileggi shares the back story on Henry Hill — the central figure in the sensational mob tale that became the film GoodFellas.
‘We’d Meet in Secret Places the FBI Didn’t Know About ... - VICE
Jan 24, 2017 · Hill was a real life mobster turned-FBI informant and the subject of Nicholas Pileggi’s 1986 book Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family.
Nicholas Pileggi - Biography - IMDb
Nicholas Pileggi. Writer: Goodfellas. Nicholas Pileggi was born and raised in New York, the son of a shoe store owner. He worked as a journalist for Associated Press in the 1950s where he specialized in crime reporting.
Wiseguy: The 25th Anniversary Edition Kindle Edition
Sep 27, 2011 · Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime ...
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