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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 he later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in both 1972 and 1974.
Puzo was born into a poor family from Pietradefusi, Province of Avellino, Campania, Italy living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York. Many of his books draw heavily on this heritage. After graduating from the City College of New York, he joined the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. Due to his poor eyesight, the military did not let him undertake combat duties but made him a public relations officer stationed in Germany. In 1950, his first short story, The Last Christmas, was published in American Vanguard. After the war, he wrote his first book, The Dark Arena, which was published in 1955.
At periods in the 1950s and early 1960s, Puzo worked as a writer/editor for publisher Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company. Puzo, along with other writers like Bruce Jay Friedman, worked for the company line of men's magazines, pulp titles like Male, True Action, and Swank. Under the pseudonym Mario Cleri, Puzo wrote World War II adventure features for True Action.
Puzo's most famous work, The Godfather, was first published in 1969 after he had heard anecdotes about Mafia organizations during his time in pulp journalism. He later said in an interview with Larry King that his principal motivation was to make money. He had already, after all, written two books that had received great reviews, yet had not amounted to much. As a government clerk with five children, he was looking to write something that would appeal to the masses. With a number-one bestseller for months on the New York Times Best Seller List, Mario Puzo had found his target audience. The book was later developed into the film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie received 11 Academy Award nominations, winning three, including an Oscar for Puzo for Best Adapted Screenplay. Coppola and Puzo then collaborated on sequels to the original film, The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III.
Puzo wrote the first draft of the script for the 1974 disaster film Earthquake, which he was unable to continue working on due to his commitment to The Godfather Part II. Puzo also co-wrote Richard Donner's Superman and the original draft for Superman II. He also collaborated on the stories for the 1982 film A Time to Die and the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola film The Cotton Club.
Puzo never saw the publication of his penultimate book, Omertŕ, but the manuscript was finished before his death as was the manuscript for The Family. However, in a review originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jules Siegel, who had worked closely with Puzo at Magazine Management Company, speculated that Omertŕ may have been completed by "some talentless hack." Siegel also acknowledges the temptation to "rationalize avoiding what is probably the correct analysis – that [Puzo] wrote it and it is terrible."
Puzo died of heart failure on Friday, July 2, 1999 at his home on Manor Lane in West Bay Shore, Long Island, New York. His family now lives in East Islip, New York.
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Mario Puzo's Mafia series / with Mark Winegardner
Mario Puzo - The Godfather (read by Joe Mantegna)
Mario Puzo - The Sicilian (read by Richard Ferrone)
Mario Puzo - The Last Don (read by Joe Mantegna)
Mario Puzo - Omerta (read by Richard Ferrone)
Mario Puzo - The Godfather Returns (read by Scott Brick)
Mario Puzo - The Godfather's Revenge (read by Scott Brick)
Other
Mario Puzo - The Family (read by George Guidall)
Mario Puzo - Fools Die (read by Grover Gardner)
Mario Puzo - The Fortunate Pilgrim (read by John Kenneth)
Mario Puzo - Six Graves To Munich (read by Firdous Bamji)
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Mario Puzo's Mafia series
http://rapidgator.net/file/3aaba4a15b3a681a01435224022b4130/The_Family.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cd5a2fcecb62827dde5d00393f3d8598/Fools_Die.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/51c6dce1d255e81dd3dc044a33d17b7c/Fools_Die.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f2c13714f9db18953af4332094aefae3/The_Fortunate_Pilgrim.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/75e92901c7757fba551a536fe4c5e561/Six_Graves_To_Munich.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/d896bc451cbd7f51be970e73cad2a201/The_Godfather.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3b2dd928997b0cd2934de6a3e07d5eb5/The_Sicilian.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4bf0fee9026029f87077c306c7c82c06/The_Last_Don.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2f4ff1bb15f0813b7fc038ea0e7e037f/Omerta.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ef58386ceda8ed060a435f357ead7698/The_Godfather_Returns.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/79c4aef966846ee7bfc71134b26bd9d5/The_Godfathers_Revenge.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3748a0b3ef556591d29b80ec27ab0aaf/The_Godfathers_Revenge.part2.rar.html |
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