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- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- A producer, writer, director and award-winning novelist, he is the author of the collection 'Between Here and the Yellow Sea' and the novel 'Galveston.' He is originally from Southwest Louisiana, and taught literature at several universities, including the University of Chicago, before going into screenwriting in 2010. His fiction has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, and 26 other languages. He is best known as the creator of HBO's "True Detective", for which he was showrunner, producer, sometime director and almost entirely sole writer for its three original seasons. As of December 2024, he directed his first feature from his original script, "Easy's Waltz", starring Vince Vaughn and Al Pacino, and he is in preproduction on an original series for Netflix, while writing a number of films for Skydance Entertainment.- IMDb mini biography by: WME agency
- SpouseSuzanne Santo(June 2022 - ?) (1 child)
- ParentsSheila Sierra PizzolattoNick Pizzolatto Jr.
- His most influential writers include William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Robert Stone, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- Attended Louisiana State University and University of Arkansas Graduate School.
- Was a bartender in Austin, TX, for four years.
- He gave up writing for a few years in his twenties when his mentor passed away, working as a bartender and Technical writer.
- His parents are attorney Nick Pizzolatto Jr. (Jennings, LA) and Sheila Sierra Pizzolatto (Sulphur, LA).
- I'd already been reading Emil Cioran for years and consider him one of my all-time favorite and, oddly, most nourishing writers. As an aphorist, Cioran has no rivals other than perhaps Nietzsche, and many of his philosophies are echoed by Ligotti. But Ligotti is far more disturbing than Cioran, who is actually very funny. In exploring these philosophies, nobody I've read has expressed the idea of humanity as aberration more powerfully than Cioran and Ligotti.[2014]
- And if we're talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race," Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.[2014]
- If you want to be a writer, stop being a personal assistant!
- If you believe in a personal god who has a destiny for everyone, well then your just a character in his story.
- I think there's dangerous people in the world, and that dangerous people are often called upon to combat them.
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