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Oct 11, 2024 · Mario Puzo (born October 15, 1920, New York, New York, U.S.—died July 2, 1999, Bay Shore, New York) was an American novelist and screenwriter who chronicled a fictional Mafia family, the Corleones, in The Godfather (1969), which became one of the most successful novels ever—selling some 21 million copies worldwide, spawning three critically ...
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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.
Mario Francis Puzo was born on October 15, 1920, in the Hell's Kitchen area of New York City, to a family of Italian immigrants. His parents, Antonio and Maria Le Conti Puzo, hailed from the Province of Avellino, Campania.
Oct 15, 2020 · Puzo was born 100 years ago, on 15 October 1920, in the west Manhattan area known as “Hell’s Kitchen”. His illiterate father Antonio, a track layer for the New York Central Railroad,...
Jul 2, 1999 · Puzo was born in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City to Italian immigrants from the Province of Avellino; his father was from Pietradefusi and his mother from Ariano Irpino. [2] When Puzo was 12, his father, who worked as a trackman for the New York Central Railroad , was committed to the Pilgrim State Hospital for schizophrenia , [3 ...
Mario Puzo was born October 15, 1920, in "Hell's Kitchen" on Manhattan's (NY) West Side and, following military service in World War II, attended New York's New School for Social Research and Columbia University.
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Mario Puzo was born on 15th October 1920, in New York City. He grew up in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, which later served as inspiration for his works. Puzo attended the City College of New York, where he studied writing and literature.
