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Mario Puzo

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Also known as Mario Cleri, Mario Gianluigi Puzo, Mario Francis Puzo

American author, screenwriter, and journalist

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Mario Puzo was an American male author whose creative career began in 1955. He was the father of five children and occasionally used the pseudonym Mario Cleri. His literary output includes notable works such as *El Padrino*, *The Last Don*, *The Dark Arena*, *ha-Mishpaḥah*, *Ḳenedi ha-reviʻi*, and *Padrinho*.

An official website for the author is hosted at mariopuzo.com. His works have been cataloged in various databases, with some sources listing five works and others listing seventy-eight. He has been referenced by 546 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1920
Died
1999
Works
78

Top works

  • El Padrino
  • ha-Mishpaḥah
  • The Last Don / The Dark Arena
  • Ḳenedi ha-reviʻi
  • Padrinho

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1920-10-15
Active to
1999-07-02

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,030
Total plays
28,856

Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an Italian American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather (1969), which was later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in both 1972 and 1974. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mario+Puzo">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Encyclopedic overview

Mario Francis Puzo (/ˈpuːzoʊ/; 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.

Life and career

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mario Puzo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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