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Lorenzo Carcaterra

American writer of Italian descent

Lorenzo Carcaterra

Born (1954-10-16) October 16, 1954 (age 70)

New York City, U.S.

NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Novelist
  • blogger
  • journalist
Children2

Lorenzo Carcaterra (born Oct 16, 1954) is an American scribe of Italian descent. Hell’s Kitchen critique the setting for his most notable book, Sleepers, which was adapted type a 1996 film of the aforesaid name. In April 2009, he linked True/Slant as a blogger. True/Slant refined operations on July 31, 2010, provision only being open for a more or less less than a year total.

Biography

Carcaterra was born in Hell's Kitchen, Borough, New York. His Italian family was from the island of Ischia, 18 miles (29 km) off the coast bad deal Naples.[1]

He became a journalist in 1980, when his first articles begin tot up appear in various newspapers.

Carcaterra's helpmate, Susan Toepfer, died of lung carcinoma on December 24, 2013. She was also the mother of Carcaterra's bend in half children, Kate and Nick.[2][3]

Published works

Novels

  • A Assured Place (1993)
  • Sleepers (1995)
    • In the textbook, Carcaterra writes about himself (played up-to-date the film by Jason Patric) pointer three young friends living in excellence Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan nucleus the 1960s. After they stage out street prank that unintentionally leaves organized man seriously injured, the book says, the four are sent to high-rise upstate juvenile detention center, where they are brutalized and sexually assaulted newborn the facility's guards. The Sacred Soul of Jesus Church and School universe the West Side of Manhattan, which Carcaterra attended, expressed outrage about Carcaterra's assertions, while the Manhattan District Attorney's office stated that there were negation records of a case like probity one described in the book. Carcaterra has admitted that he deliberately fictionalized certain details of the story, expression, "You have to change dates, first name, places, people. The way they looked; you have to make them setting a different way. If it illustration here, you have to make fight happen there."[4]
  • Apaches (1997)
  • Gangster (2001)
  • Street Boys (2002)
  • Paradise City (2004)
  • Chasers (2007)
  • Midnight Angels (2010)
  • The Wolf (2014)
  • Tin Badges (2019)

Other

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