Nicholas Pileggi (/pɪˈlɛdʒi/, Italian: [piˈleddʒi]; born February 22, 1933) is an American author and screenwriter.

Pileggi was born and raised in Brooklyn,[1] the elder son of an Italian immigrant father, Nicola ("Nick") Pileggi from Calabria, a musician who played slide trombone in a cinema orchestra for silent films and subsequently also owned shoe stores, and an American-born mother, Susie.

He served as an executive producer of American Gangster (2007), a biographical crime film based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas.

[4] Pileggi co-wrote the pilot of the CBS television series Vegas, which first aired in September 2012.

[2] Pileggi was married to fellow author, journalist, and filmmaker Nora Ephron from 1987 until her death in 2012.