What true-crime book inspired GoodFellas?

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Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background. — Martin Scorsese American film director Martin Scorsese, 2008.

The 1990 film GoodFellas, directed by Martin Scorsese, was inspired by the 1985 true-crime biography Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by American author and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi.

The book chronicles the true story of New York mobster Henry Hill, detailing his life within the Lucchese crime family from his beginnings as a teenager in 1955 to his eventual arrest for cocaine trafficking in 1980.1