Carlo Brunzi (4 November 1910 - 15 May 1986) was an Italian-American author and lawyer, known in the 1940's and 1950's for defending members of the Mafia and other New York organized crime figures and later writing numerous novels and short stories about life, in particular for Italian-Americans in the New York area, during the 20th century. He is best known for his two epic novels, An Immigrant's Tale (1973), which was adapted into the first half of the Story of America trilogy, and The Gangster (1962), which later became a TV miniseries starring Sal Caparza and Mike Myers.