&sq=&lang=&file=File:Catchmecanbook.jpg) First hardcover edition (1980) | |
| Author | Frank Abagnale Jr. Stan Redding |
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| Cover artist | Hank Holland |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Mystery/Action |
| Publisher | Grosset & Dunlap |
Publication date | 1980 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 253 |
| ISBN | 0-448-16538-4 |
Catch Me If You Can is a semi-autobiographical book about criminal exploits allegedly engaged in by Frank Abagnale Jr., an American onetime con artist. Abagnale claims that, as a young man, he cashed $2.5 million worth of bad checks while impersonating a Pan Am pilot, a doctor, a teacher, and an attorney. The book is acknowledged to have been partly fictionalized, and the factual basis for the events contained in the book has been challenged. Co-written by Abagnale and Stan Redding, Catch Me If You Can was adapted into a film of the same name by director Steven Spielberg in 2002. In the film, Abagnale was portrayed by actor Leonardo DiCaprio.