Question: Who was a satirist, Nicholas Pileggi or Nathanael West?
Context: Five Came Back is a 1939 American black-and-white melodrama from RKO Radio Pictures, produced by Robert Sisk, directed by John Farrow, that stars Chester Morris and Lucille Ball.  The film was photographed by renowned film noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, and written by Jerry Cady, Dalton Trumbo, and Nathanael West.  Although considered a B movie, the positive notices received by Ball helped launch her as an A-list actress.  "Five Came Back" is considered a precursor of the disaster film genre. Nicholas Pileggi (born February 22, 1933) is an American producer, author and screenwriter. Simon & Schuster v. Crime Victims Board, 502 U.S. 105 (1991) , was a Supreme Court case dealing with Son of Sam laws, which are state laws that prevent convicted criminals from publishing books about their crime for profit.  Simon & Schuster challenged the law's application to profits from Nicholas Pileggi's book "", which was written with paid assistance from former mobster Henry Hill.  The court struck down the Son of Sam law in New York on the ground that the law was violative of the First Amendment, which protects free speech.  Nevertheless, similar laws in other states remain unchallenged.  The opinion of the court was written by Sandra Day O'Connor. Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas (ISBN  ) is a 1995 non-fiction book by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi that depicts the story of the alliance of Mafia mobsters Lefty Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro and their exploits working in Mafia controlled casinos in Las Vegas. Geraldine "Geri" McGee (May 16, 1936 – November 9, 1982) was an American model, socialite, and Las Vegas showgirl.  Her involvement with criminal activity in Las Vegas, along with her husband Frank Rosenthal, was chronicled in the 1995 Martin Scorsese film "Casino".  The screenplay for "Casino" was written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, based on Pileggi's biography about Geri and Frank Rosenthal titled "Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas".  Sharon Stone portrayed McGee in the film, with her name changed to 'Ginger McKenna', and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Hotel Kenmore Hall is a 22-story single room occupancy hotel located at 145 East 23rd Street in the Gramercy section of Manhattan, designed by architect Maurice Deutsch and constructed in 1927.  Author Nathanael West lived and worked at the hotel as a night manager in the early years after the hotel opened; one of West's real-life experiences at the hotel inspired the incident between Romola Martin and Homer Simpson that would later appear in "The Day of the Locust" (1939).  West allowed friends like Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, S. J. Perelman and Maxwell Bodenheim free room and meals.  Dashiell Hammett finished "The Maltese Falcon" here Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American author, screenwriter and satirist. My Blue Heaven is a 1990 American crime comedy film directed by Herbert Ross, written by Nora Ephron, and starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack.  This is the third film in which Martin and Moranis starred together.  It has been noted for its relationship to "Goodfellas", which was released one month later.  Both films are based upon the life of Henry Hill, although the character is renamed "Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli" in "My Blue Heaven".  "Goodfellas" was based upon the book "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi, while the screenplay for "My Blue Heaven" was written by Pileggi's wife Nora Ephron, and much of the research for both works was done in the same sessions with Hill. James F. Light was an American literary scholar, university vice president, and provost.  During his academic career, he helped revive the works of satirist Nathanael West, with the first book length critical study of his work, "Nathanael West: An Interpretive Study", (Northwestern Univ.  Press, 1961).  He was also the leading authority on John William De Forest, the early American realist whose work he critiqued in "John William De Forest" (Twayne Pub., 1965), and he wrote extensively on J. D. Salinger, Robert Penn Warren and others. "The Imposter" is a short story written by Nathanael West in the early 1930s; it was not published in West's lifetime and first appeared in "The New Yorker" on June 2, 1997 and in the Library of America edition of West's collected work: "Novels & Other Writings".  The story, told by a struggling writer and set among the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, deals with a failed sculptor named Beano Walsh, who claims he cannot create his art since the anatomy books are all wrong.
Answer: Nathanael West