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Mario Francis Puzo (/ ˈ p uː z oʊ /; 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 .
Six Graves to Munich is a novel by Mario Puzo, written under the pseudonym Mario Cleri, published in October, 1967. [1] The novel is an expansion of an eponymous short story or novella which appeared in the November, 1965 issue of Male magazine.
The Godfather book series is a series of crime novels about Italian-American Mafia families, most notably the fictional Corleone family, led by Don Vito Corleone and later his son Michael Corleone. The first novel, The Godfather, written by Mario Puzo, was released in 1969. It was adapted into a series of three feature films, which became one ...
813.54. Followed by. The Sicilian. The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published on 10 March 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1] the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City and Long Island, headed by Vito Corleone, the Godfather. The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955 and includes ...
Print. The Last Don is a 1996 novel by American author Mario Puzo, best known as the author of the 1969 novel The Godfather. [1] The story follows an aging Mafia Don and his family as they try to retain power. [2] The story alternates between the film industry and the Las Vegas Strip casinos, and how the American Mafia is linked to both. [3][4]
The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions. The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions is a 1972 collective autobiography written by Mario Puzo, on his journey through writing his 1969 novel The Godfather. I was forty-five years old and tired of being an artist. Besides, I owed $20,000 to relatives, finance companies, banks and assorted ...
The Godfather. The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film [2] directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel. The film stars an ensemble cast including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard ...
The Fortunate Pilgrim is a 1965 novel by American author Mario Puzo. [1]Mario Puzo considered the novel his finest, most poetic, and literary work. [citation needed] In one of his last interviews he stated that he was saddened by the fact that The Godfather, a fiction he never liked, [citation needed] outshone the novel based on his mother's honest immigrant struggle for respectability in ...