Mario Francis Puzo was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and the Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather, published in 1969, which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Born in 1920 and dying in 1999. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first Godfather film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974, and he also wrote the original screenplay for Superman. His final novel, The Family, was released after his death, in 2001.
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was an American author and screenwriter
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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
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