Mario Puzo
1920
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1999
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: detective fiction
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: City College of New York, New York University
occupation: novelist, screenwriter, writer, science fiction writer, diplomat
award received: Writers Guild of America Award, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
influenced by: Honoré de Balzac
official website: mariopuzo.com
Mario Francis Puzo (; Italian: [ˈmaːrjo ˈputtso, -ddzo]; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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