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Mario Puzo
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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.
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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
- 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
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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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