Encyclopaedia Britannica: The Godfather (novel by Mario Puzo) | Introduction & Analysis
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Mario Puzo
Mario Francis Puzo 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 its sequel Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original…
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culture · American author and screenwriter (1920–1999) · novelist · screenwriter · writer · science fiction writer · diplomat · also Mario Puzo, Mario Cleri, Mario Gianluigi Puzo, Mario Francis Puzo, Puzo
Born 15 October 1920 · Died 2 July 1999 · Q182870
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2026· 3 entries
VidaExtra: Mario Puzo ganó dos Óscar por El Padrino sin saber escribir guiones y compró un libro para aprender. En el primer capítulo ponía: "Estudie El Padrino I"
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Yahoo: Mario Puzo wasn't sure audiences would understand the title Apocalypse Now
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2022· 1 entry
Yahoo: Mario Puzo Estate Signs With APA (Exclusive)
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Godfather by Mario Puzo - review
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2012· 3 entries
International Business Times: Mario Puzo ‘Godfather’ Lawsuit ‘Just Business, Not Personal’: Author’s Son Wants $10M in Countersuit
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The Hollywood Reporter: Mario Puzo Estate Wants To Cancel ‘The Godfather’ Contract with Paramount in Countersuit
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Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,805 times.
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1999· 5 entries
At his home in West Bay Shore, New York, at the age of 78
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Died 1999-07-02.
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“Prawdziwy mistrz magii potrafi sprawić, że jego publiczność równocześnie śmieje się i płacze.”
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“The horse's head in the producer's bed was totally my imagination. I made it up based on Sicilian folklore. In the old days, they would kill a man's favorite animal and hang it up as a warning.”
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“I'm fascinated by the movies simply because it is an enormous machine for making money and no matter how badly they run it, it still makes money. It's the perfect industry to put your nephew in and your idiot cousin, because they'll be geniuses.”
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1991· 1 entry
Puzo's speculative fiction novel The Fourth K was published
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1982· 1 entry
“s Superman, which then also included the plot for Superman II, as they were originally written as one film. He also collaborated on the stories for the 1982 film A Time to Die and the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola film The Cotton Club. In 1991, Puzo”
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for Superman (1979).
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1978· 1 entry
Her nurse, Carol Gino, became Puzo's companion
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for The Godfather Part II (1975).
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for The Godfather (1973).
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1971· 1 entry
“Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen”
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1969· 2 entries
Puzo's best-known work, The Godfather, was published
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“Charlie Reese's Amazing Escape from a Russian Death Camp”
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1967· 2 entries
When a literary scout for the company contacted then Paramount Vice President of Production Peter Bart about Puzo's unfinished sixty-page manuscript
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“Trapped Girls in the Riviera's Flesh Casino”
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1966· 1 entry
“(1965) “Saigon Nymph Who Led the Green Berets to the Cong's Terror Headquarters”
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1964· 2 entries
“Big Mike's Wild Young Sister-in-law”
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“John 'Red' Marston's Island of Delight”
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1960· 1 entry
Bruce Jay Friedman hired Puzo as an assistant editor of a group of men's pulp magazines with titles such as Male and Men
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1950· 1 entry
Puzo's first short story, "The Last Christmas," was published in American Vanguard and republished in the 1953 anthology New Voices: American Writing Today #1
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1920· 2 entries
To Italian immigrants from the Province of Avellino; his father was from Pietradefusi and his mother from Ariano Irpino
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Born 1920-10-15.
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