Mario Puzo
American author, screenwriter, and journalist
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Mario Puzo was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist best known for his work in popular fiction and film. His contributions to literature and cinema have made him a significant figure in American cultural history.
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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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- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
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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.
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1920 births1999 deaths20th-century American male writers20th-century American novelists20th-century American screenwriters20th-century pseudonymous writersAmerican crime fiction writersAmerican male novelistsAmerican male screenwritersAmerican science fiction writersAmerican travel writersAmerican writers of Italian descent