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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. 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.
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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.
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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.
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Jan 20, 2017 · Wiseguy author and GoodFellas co-screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi. Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage. Martin Scorsese turned the biography of a New York hoodlum, Henry Hill, into a cinematic...
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.
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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.
