![]() ![]() ![]() His collection of short fiction Between Here and the Yellow Sea was long-listed for the 2006 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was also named one of the top five fiction debuts of the year by Poets & Writers Magazine. ![]() In 2004, his work was among the finalists for the National Magazine Award in Fiction. "Between Here and the Yellow Sea" – which were sold to The Atlantic Monthly. He wrote two short stories when he was completing his MFA at the University of Arkansas – "Ghost-Birds" and He 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. 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. Pizzolato attended Louisiana State University on a visual arts scholarship. Louis Catholic High School in 1993 and left home when he was 17. Pizzolato graduated from Lake Charles' St. At age five, he and his family moved to a rural area of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Pizzolatto grew up poor in a working-class Roman Catholic family in New Orleans. Pizzolatto was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for creating the HBO crime drama series True Detective. Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto (born October 18, 1975) is an American writer, producer and director. ![]()
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