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Mario Puzo

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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

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Music · MusicBrainz

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

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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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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,995x

  2. Safety, Activity, and Immune Correlates of Anti–PD-1 Antibody in Cancer

    · 2012 · cited 10,829x

  3. 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

    · 2018 · cited 9,646x

  4. Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

    · 2019 · cited 9,164x

  5. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

    · 2000 · cited 8,917x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Mario
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
New York City
Place of death
Long Island
Occupation
diplomat
Educated at
New York University
Languages spoken
English language
Award
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
Notable work
The Godfather
Field of work
performing arts
Genre
detective fiction
Conflict
World War II
Official website
mariopuzo.com
Image
Mario Puzo 1972 (cropped).jpg
Number of children
5
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cause of death
cardiac arrest
date of birth
1920-10-15
date of death
1999-07-02
influenced by
Honoré de Balzac
pseudonym
Mario Cleri
Commons category
Mario Puzo
manner of death
natural causes
topic's main category
Category:Mario Puzo
nominated for
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
writing language
English language
start of work period
1955-00-00
name in native language
Mario Puzo
related category
Category:Films with screenplays by Mario Puzo
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
member of
Writers Guild of America West
P12674
Jaulges
birth name
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
Sources (6)

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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

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