Lorenzo Carcaterra (born October 16, 1954) is an American writer of Italian descent. Hell’s Kitchen is the setting for his most famous book, Sleepers, which was adapted as a 1996 film of the same name. In April 2009, he joined True/Slant as a blogger. True/Slant ceased operations on July 31, 2010, after only being open for a little less than a year total.
Carcaterra was born in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York. His family is from the island of Ischia, eighteen miles off the coast of Naples.
He became a journalist in 1980, when his first articles begin to appear in various newspapers.

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