Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto was born on October 18,1975 and is an American author, screenwriter, director, and producer.
23 Facts About Nic Pizzolatto
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Nic Pizzolatto is best known for creating the HBO crime drama series True Detective.
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Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto was born in New Orleans on October 18,1975.
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Nic Pizzolatto graduated from St Louis Catholic High School in 1993 and left home when he was 17.
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Nic Pizzolatto attended Louisiana State University on a visual arts scholarship, graduating with a BA in English and philosophy.
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Nic Pizzolatto gave up writing following the death of a writing mentor and moved to Austin, Texas, where he worked as a bartender and technical writer for four years.
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Nic Pizzolatto later enrolled in an MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas, and received the Lily Peter Fellowship for poetry and Walton Fellowship in 2003.
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Nic Pizzolatto received an honorable mention from the Pushcart Prize, and his short story "Wanted Man" is included in Best American Mystery Stories 2009.
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In 2011, Nic Pizzolatto wrote two episodes for the first season of the crime drama television series The Killing.
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In 2012, Nic Pizzolatto created an original television series called True Detective, which was sold to HBO and completed shooting in June 2013 with him as executive producer, sole writer, and showrunner.
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Nic Pizzolatto listed several influences on the show's first season: philosophy books such as Thomas Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Eugene Thacker's In The Dust of This Planet, Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound, Jim Crawford's Confessions of an Antinatalist, and David Benatar's Better Never to Have Been.
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In late 2015, it was announced that Nic Pizzolatto had signed a new deal with HBO through 2018.
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Nic Pizzolatto adapted his 2010 novel Galveston for the 2018 film of the same name; however, he requested to be credited under the pseudonym Jim Hammett following director Melanie Laurent's contributions to the screenplay, despite not being formally engaged as a writer on the project, feeling the final script did not reflect his own.
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In January 2020, FX announced that Nic Pizzolatto had signed an overall deal with the network, with the first project being the drama series Redeemer.
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Nic Pizzolatto would remain as an executive producer, marking his first season without a writing credit.
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In March 2023, it was reported that Nic Pizzolatto would be writing a Western series for Prime Video.
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Nic Pizzolatto taught fiction and literature as Kenan Visiting Writer at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 2008 at the University of Chicago, and as assistant professor of English at DePauw University.
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Nic Pizzolatto moved to California to pursue a screenwriting career in 2010.
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The first two short stories Nic Pizzolatto submitted sold simultaneously to The Atlantic.
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Nic Pizzolatto was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2004.
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Nic Pizzolatto's novel Galveston won third prize in the 2010 Barnes and Noble Discovery Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for best first novel.
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In 2015, Nic Pizzolatto was nominated for a Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama for True Detective.
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In 2015, Nic Pizzolatto was named British GQ Writer of the Year.