{{Short description|American novelist and screenwriter (1935–2023)}} {{sources|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Vincent Patrick | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|1|19}} | birth_place = The Bronx, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|10|6|1935|1|19}} | death_place = Manhattan, New York, U.S. | nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | other_names = | occupation = Author, screenwriter | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = {{nobr|''The Pope of Greenwich Village''}}<br>''Family Business'' }}
'''Vincent Francis Patrick''' (January 19, 1935 – October 6, 2023) was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote the cult crime novels ''The Pope of Greenwich Village'' and ''Family Business'', and adapted both novels for the screen.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-31-cl-22683-story.html|title=For Him, It Took a Greenwich Village|date=March 31, 1999|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> ''The Pope of Greenwich Village'', directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke and Daryl Hannah, was released in 1984. ''Family Business'', directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick, was released in 1989. He also co-wrote ''The Devil's Own'' and wrote uncredited early treatments for films including ''Beverly Hills Cop'' and ''The Godfather Part III''.
Patrick was born in the Bronx on January 19, 1935, the second of three children. He dropped out of Cardinal Hayes High School, married his wife in 1954, with whom he had two children, and began selling Bibles door-to-door. Patrick found the job dishonest, so he returned to his studies, earning a high school diploma and graduated from New York University with a degree in mechanical engineering. Patrick abandoned the profession in his mid-30s to take up writing.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Alex |title=Vincent Patrick, Chronicler of Hustlers and Mobsters, Dies at 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/books/vincent-patrick-dead.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=October 19, 2023}}</ref>
Patrick died from complications of Lewy body dementia at his Manhattan home, on October 6, 2023, at the age of 88.<ref name=NYT/>
==Novels== *''The Pope of Greenwich Village'' (1979) *''Family Business'' (1985) *''Smoke Screen'' (1999)
==Screenwriting credits== *''Beverly Hills Cop'' (1984) (uncredited) *''The Pope of Greenwich Village'' (1984) *''Family Business'' (1989) *''The Godfather Part III'' (1990) *''At Play in the Fields of the Lord'' (1991) *''Money Train'' (1995) *''The Devil's Own'' (1997) *''To Serve and Protect'' (1999)
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|name=Vincent Patrick|id=0665932}}
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