- He wrote the original play "Short Eyes", later made into a film, as part of an imates playwriting workshop while incarcerated for armed robbery in Sing Sing prison.
- Brother of Dadi Pinero
- Was nominated for Broadway's 1975 Tony Award as author of Best Play nominee "Short Eyes."
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 700-701. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- Played by Benjamin Bratt in "Pinero" (2001).
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